DrAl Fricker
Associate Director, Teaching & Learning, Indigenous Studies (IND)
Faculty of Arts and Education/NIKERI Institute
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- Associate Director, Teaching & Learning, Indigenous Studies (IND)Faculty of Arts and Education/NIKERI Institute
- +61 3 522 72214 (Work)
- Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216
BIO
Dr. Aleryk (Al) Fricker is a Dja Dja Wurrung man born in Naarm, Victoria, and works as a Lecturer in the NIKERI Institute of the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University. Dr Fricker is a former primary and secondary school history, Geography, English and maths teacher.
Dr. Fricker is an active teacher and researcher and works hard with the next generation of teachers, so they have the knowledge and skills to begin to decolonise their classrooms to benefit the next generations of students. He uses a decolonised pedagogical approach to ensure that his students can benefit from engaging with First Nations educational practices that are tens of thousands of years old.
Al's scholarship is focused on both the research that justifies the need for decolonisation, as well as the practical outcomes and the applied processes for school leadership, classroom teachers, curriculum designers, and the school communities that can support the educational outcomes of all, and especially First Nations students.
Dr. Fricker is an active teacher and researcher and works hard with the next generation of teachers, so they have the knowledge and skills to begin to decolonise their classrooms to benefit the next generations of students. He uses a decolonised pedagogical approach to ensure that his students can benefit from engaging with First Nations educational practices that are tens of thousands of years old.
Al's scholarship is focused on both the research that justifies the need for decolonisation, as well as the practical outcomes and the applied processes for school leadership, classroom teachers, curriculum designers, and the school communities that can support the educational outcomes of all, and especially First Nations students.
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT
- Associate Director, Teaching & Learning, Indigenous Studies (IND)Deakin University, National Indigenous Knowledges Education Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute
DEGREES
- PhDCharles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia1 Mar 2016 - 30 Jun 2021
- Master of Teaching (Sec)University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia1 Feb 2010 - 30 Jun 2011
- Bachelor of Arts (Hons)University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia1 Feb 2013 - 31 Dec 2015
- Bachelor of ArtsUniversity of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia1 Feb 2002 - 31 Dec 2009
FIELDS OF RESEARCH
- Curriculum and pedagogy
- Education policy, sociology and philosophy
- Specialist studies in education
AREA/FACULTY
- Faculty of Arts and Education
DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE
- NIKERI Institute