Theorising knowing: A reflection on Indigenous philosophical perspectives on knowing, learning and education

This paper engages Indigenous philosophical perspectives to critically analyse common academic practices such as the claims to, and aims of, western academic standards. The paper draws from a doctoral research project examining learning and teaching around Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia. Starting by challenging the validity of the claims to objective truth through disconnectedness from one’s research, I highlight how the concepts and practices of knowing, learning and education are philosophically chained to and determined by western academic standards. This paper encourages readers to rethink
and reshape their own relationships with knowing, learning, education and philosophy, with the aim of overcoming western philosophical monopoly in this space.