Summary Of Nakata's Indigenous Standpoint Theory

By viewing the classroom as a location of possibility, students and teachers can engage with the cultural interface, through Nakata’s Indigenous standpoint theory. Nakata (2007) describes his Indigenous Standpoint theory as a method of enquiry and as a process for making the corpus intelligible. The corpus is described by Nakata as knowledge about Indigenous Australians written by non-Indigenous people. By allowing students to analyse the knowledges they possess and other people possess, they are able to make more sense of the corpus. This can also lead to better understanding of what is deemed appropriate and inappropriate with regard to the corpus.

Although Nakata states that his Indigenous standpoint theory is not a reflection of experience,