Towards a Pedagogy for Emancipation: Education for First Peoples
Dr Sarra is passionate about effecting sustainable change through positive leadership and mentoring with high expectations for a strong and smart Indigenous population.
He embraces a proud cultural identity and a holistic sense of what it means to be Aboriginal in contemporary Australian society.
Strong and Smart – Towards a Pedagogy for Emancipation tells the story of how Dr Chris Sarra overcame low expectations for his future to become an educator who has sought to change the tide of low expectations for other Indigenous students.
His book draws upon Roy Bhaskar’s theory of Critical Realism to demonstrate how Indigenous people have agency and can take control of their own emancipation.
Dr Sarra is passionate about effecting sustainable change through positive leadership and mentoring with high expectations for a strong and smart Indigenous population. He embraces a proud cultural identity and a holistic sense of what it means to be Aboriginal in contemporary Australian society.
Chris encourages other leaders to embrace the Stronger Smarter challenge of high expectations relationships. His advocacy of the Stronger Smarter approach has inspired transformation in schools across Australia.
IHHP guided the community through the whole creative process of writing, recording and shooting this video. A number of key health messages and community values were explored. The results are testimony of who Bidgy are, where they have come from and where they are going.
The film “Strong and Smart” tells the story of the rise of the Cherbourg State School from a situation of aimless despair and chaos to an institution with a sense of purpose, direction and unity. The film shows the turn around over 4 years, since the arrival of a dynamic new teaching staff led by Chris Sarra, the school’s first Aboriginal principal.
Friedrich Froebel advocated for education in the context of family and community.