Teaching Primary History with Indigenous Perspectives

Nicole Premier

I am a primary school teacher and have been teaching for over 20 years. I also lecture and tutor pre-service primary and secondary teachers in a variety of subjects, a few days a week at the University of Notre Dame Australia. I am a proud Kuku-Yalanji woman who has a deep passion to see improvement in Indigenous educational outcomes for our students in our schools. I would also like to see a deeper and more compassionate understanding about our true history in Australia. I believe this needs to start with educating our pre-service teachers on ways to authentically incorporate our true history and Indigenous perspectives into a range of curriculum areas. I have recently begun a research project to discover ways we can better prepare our pre-service teachers to do this. This interest of mine has now led me to have the exciting opportunity to work alongside the learning team here at Sydney Living Museums to help develop some professional learning on Indigenous perspectives for primary teachers.​