Dr Aleryk Fricker
Lecturer
Lecturer
Dr. Aleryk (Al) Fricker is a proud Dja Dja Wurrung early career researcher who completed his PhD through Charles Darwin University in 2021. He is currently employed at RMIT University as a Lecturer in the School of Education. He was formally a Primary and Secondary school teacher and has a passion for everything teaching and learning.
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 research 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. his research therefore focuses on educational reform and policy that can support the educational outcomes of all, and especially First Nations students.
He is an active member of the First Nations academic staff at RMIT University and his fulfilled various roles including being the Ngulu lead for the School of Education and engaging with various roles within the RMIT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment Committee.
Al's research focus is on the interplay between decolonisation and First Nations sovereignty within the education system in Australia. It explores ways that the education system can be decolonised to allow for sovereign First Nations ways of teaching and learning to be present in classrooms and how this can benefit all students regardless of their cultural contexts. This is underpinned by Critical Race Theory, social justice frameworks, and First Nations teaching and learning practices.
Indigenous Education, Decolonised Education, Browning, Curriculum, Pedagogy, Education Reform, First Nations Sovereignty
Publications
Projects
Awards
Gender. Race, and Class in the Lives of Today’s Teachers – Educators at the Intersections
Fricker, A, Gray, E, Crowhurst, M (2021).
Matilda Education
Lawless, B, Green, D, O’Brien, P, Shephard, N, Van Weringh, I, Fricker, A, Elliott, S (2021).
Agora
Fricker, A (2017).
$260,000
J. Guenther, R. Ober, S. Weuffen, A. Fricker, S. Wooltorton, S. Osborne, D. Holtze, M. Baak, S. Kelly, S. Schulz, K. Sinclair.
2021 - 2023
$200,000
K. Lowe, C. Burgess, N. Moodie, S. Weuffen, A. Fricker
Completed
Award date: 2019
Recipients: Aleryk Fricker
Award date: 2019
Recipients: Aleryk Fricker
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
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