.... Practical implications This research suggests that the prevailing constructivist framework for history education has not sufficiently challenged criticisms of the representation of Aboriginal history and the history of settler-colonialism in the history syllabus. Originality/value The paper introduces...

... students in Victorian state schools, and how their position – which was often highly mobile – was influenced by the practices of assimilation, and by Aboriginal resistance and responses to assimilationist practices in their lives. This paper contributes to histories of assimilation, Aboriginal history...

... problems, including a neutralising of “culture-as-difference” which hid the structures of inequity and exclusion according to race which continued to exist (Cope, 1987). Australia Pedagogy Aboriginal history Assimilation Citizenship The School Paper State education department...