Truth: Anita Heiss

About this episode

Professor Anita Heiss discusses the importance of truth-telling in teaching and the subjectivity of historical recording.

Professor Anita Heiss discusses the importance of truth-telling in teaching and highlights the ways that the recording of history is subjective. She also discusses useful resources in relation to Indigenising the curriculum. You can view the transcript for the interview here. Information about the book Growing up Aboriginal in Australia can be found here and the teaching notes for the book, developed by Associate Professor Marnee Shay, can be found here. Teaching notes for Professor Anita Heiss’s book Dirrayawadha, developed by Shelley Ware, can be found here.

People in this episode

Hosts: Bunda, Barney

Guest: Anita Heiss

Topics covered

• truth-telling
• history
• Indigenising curriculum
• education resources
• subjectivity in history

Keywords

• truth-telling
• Indigenising curriculum
• education
• history
• Anita Heiss

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Growing up Aboriginal in Australia, Dirrayawadha

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