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Dr Sara Weuffen

Senior Lecturer
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Education

Dr. Sara Weuffen works on the Culturally Nourishing Schooling Project as the qualitative Postdoctoral expert. 
E-mail
s.weuffen@unsw.edu.au
Location
Primary base off-campus on Wadawurrung Country in Ballarat
  • Books | 2024
    Cahir F; Weuffen S; Smith M; Bakker P; Caminiti J, 2024, Australian War Graves Workers and World War One: Devoted Labour for the Lost, the Unknown but not Forgotten Dead, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0849-3
    Books | 2024
    Cairns R; Fricker A; Weuffen S, 2024, Decolonising Australian History Education: Fresh Perspectives from Beyond the ‘History Wars’, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003435617
  • Book Chapters | 2024
    Fricker A; Cairns R; Weuffen S, 2024, 'The thin veneer of ‘the history wars’ on unceded lands', in Decolonising Australian History Education Fresh Perspectives from Beyond the History Wars, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003435617-1
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Weuffen S; Cahir F, 2024, 'The Australian War Graves Effort (1919–1922)', in Australian War Graves Workers and World War One Devoted Labour for the Lost the Unknown but Not Forgotten Dead, pp. 11 - 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0849-3_2
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Weuffen S; Cahir F, 2024, 'Their Legacy', in Australian War Graves Workers and World War One Devoted Labour for the Lost the Unknown but Not Forgotten Dead, pp. 129 - 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0849-3_8
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Weuffen S; Cahir F, 2024, '“Their Last Resting Place”: Foundations of Graves Work', in Australian War Graves Workers and World War One Devoted Labour for the Lost the Unknown but Not Forgotten Dead, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0849-3_1
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Weuffen S; Cairns R; Fricker A, 2024, 'Decolonial futures for history in Australian schools', in Decolonising Australian History Education Fresh Perspectives from Beyond the History Wars, pp. 193 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003435617-12
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Weuffen S, 2024, 'Positionality: The foundational threshold concept for decolonising practices', in Decolonising Australian History Education Fresh Perspectives from Beyond the History Wars, pp. 69 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003435617-5
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Willis K; Weuffen S, 2024, 'Strategies for Facilitating Culturally-Safer Learning Environments for First Nations Children in Australian Early Childhood Education', in Inclusion and Social Justice in Teacher Education, pp. 59 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/9783031676123_4
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Willis K; Weuffen S, 2024, 'Strategies for Facilitating Culturally-Safer Learning Environments for First Nations Children in Australian Early Childhood Education', in Inclusion and Social Justice in Teacher Education, Springer International Publishing, pp. 59 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67612-3_4
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Claughton A; Weuffen S; Robertson D; Nice K, 2023, 'Parent–Teachers: Experiences of Supporting our Children with Dis/ability in Schools', in Sustainable Development Goals Series, pp. 139 - 151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5008-7_10
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Goriss-Hunter A; Burke J; Weuffen S; Plunkett M; Emmett S, 2023, 'Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice in Education in the Twenty-First Century', in Sustainable Development Goals Series, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5008-7_1
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Weuffen S; Burke J; Goriss-Hunter A; Plunkett M; Emmett S, 2023, 'Working Towards a Sustainable, Responsive, Inclusive, and Diverse Global Education Future', in Sustainable Development Goals Series, pp. 277 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5008-7_19
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Weuffen S; Willis K, 2023, 'The Fallacy of Cultural Inclusion in Mainstream Education Discourses', in Sustainable Development Goals Series, pp. 91 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5008-7_7
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Lowe K; Moodie N; Weuffen S, 2021, 'Refusing Reconciliation in Indigenous Curriculum', in Green B; Roberts P; Brennan M (ed.), Curriculum Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World: Transnational Perspectives in Curriculum Inquiry, Palgrave, Chem, Switzland, pp. 71 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61667-0_5
  • Edited Books | 2024
    Cairns R; Fricker A; Weuffen S, 2024, Decolonising Australian History Education: Fresh Perspectives from Beyond the ‘History Wars’, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003435617
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Amazan R; Weuffen S; Langdon S; Durksen TL, 2025, 'Communities of practice in supporting collective sense-making for culturally nourishing schooling', Learning Culture and Social Interaction, 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100896
    Journal articles | 2025
    Golledge C; Lowe K; Weuffen S; Burgess C; Frey A, 2025, 'Conceptualising culturally nourishing school leadership', Journal of Educational Administration and History, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2025.2542829
    Journal articles | 2025
    Hazlewood K; Weuffen S, 2025, 'Correction: The Australian professional standards for educators: analysing cognitive, affective and pedagogical expectations in First Nations education policy (The Australian Educational Researcher, (2025), 52, 6, (4003-4025), 10.1007/s13384-025-00886-6)', Australian Educational Researcher, 52, pp. 4027 - 4029, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-025-00900-x
    Journal articles | 2025
    Hazlewood K; Weuffen S, 2025, 'The Australian professional standards for educators: analysing cognitive, affective and pedagogical expectations in First Nations education policy', Australian Educational Researcher, 52, pp. 4003 - 4025, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-025-00886-6
    Journal articles | 2025
    Lowe K; Weuffen S; Woods A; Burgess C; Vass G, 2025, 'Conceptualising culturally nourishing pedagogies for professional learning in Australian schooling', Australian Educational Researcher, 52, pp. 627 - 646, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00733-0
    Journal articles | 2025
    Martin AJ; Bostwick KCP; Durksen TL; Amazan R; Lowe K; Weuffen S, 2025, 'Teachers’ motivation to teach Aboriginal perspectives in the curriculum: links with their Aboriginal students’ academic motivation', Australian Educational Researcher, 52, pp. 1637 - 1662, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00779-0
    Journal articles | 2025
    Weuffen S; Henderson P, 2025, 'Factors impacting non-Indigenous educators’ inclusion of First Nations’ content in schools: A systematic literature review', Australian Educational Researcher, 52, pp. 4299 - 4332, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-025-00898-2
    Journal articles | 2024
    Cahir F; Weuffen S; Smith M; Bakker P; Caminiti J, 2024, 'Preface', Australian War Graves Workers and World War One Devoted Labour for the Lost the Unknown but Not Forgotten Dead, pp. vii
    Journal articles | 2024
    Weuffen S; Fricker A, 2024, 'The politics of positionality and naming practices in socio-cultural relations', Language Culture and Society, 6, pp. 137 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lcs.24019.weu
    Journal articles | 2024
    Weuffen S; Lowe K; Amazan R; Thompson K, 2024, 'The need for First Nations pedagogical narratives: epistemic inertia and complicity in (re)creating settler-colonial education', Journal of Curriculum Studies, 56, pp. 58 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2023.2294723
    Journal articles | 2023
    Burgess C; Fricker A; Weuffen S, 2023, 'Lessons to learn, discourses to change, relationships to build: How Decolonising Race Theory can articulate the interface between school leadership and Aboriginal students’ schooling experiences', Australian Educational Researcher, 50, pp. 111 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00546-z
    Journal articles | 2023
    Lowe K; Weuffen S, 2023, '“You get to ‘feel’ your culture”: Aboriginal students speaking back to deficit discourses in Australian schooling', Australian Educational Researcher, 50, pp. 33 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00598-1
    Journal articles | 2023
    Weuffen S; Lowe K; Burgess C; Thompson K, 2023, 'Sovereign and pseudo-hosts: The politics of hospitality for negotiating culturally nourishing schools', Australian Educational Researcher, 50, pp. 131 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00599-0
    Journal articles | 2023
    Weuffen S; Lowe K; Burgess C, 2023, 'Identity matters: Aboriginal educational sovereignty and futurity pushing back on the logic of elimination', Australian Educational Researcher, 50, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-023-00608-w
    Journal articles | 2023
    Weuffen S; Lowe K; Moodie N; Fricker A, 2023, 'Doing decolonisation: cultural reconnection as political resistance in schooling', Australian Educational Researcher, 50, pp. 147 - 165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00603-7
    Journal articles | 2023
    Weuffen S; Maxwell J; Lowe K, 2023, 'Inclusive, colour-blind, and deficit: Understanding teachers' contradictory views of Aboriginal students’ participation in education', Australian Educational Researcher, 50, pp. 89 - 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00517-4
    Journal articles | 2022
    Weuffen S, 2022, '‘You’d be surprised how some people probably feel uncomfortable’: the compliance–resistance continuum of planning integrated Australian History curricula', Teacher Development, 26, pp. 221 - 239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13664530.2022.2027266
    Journal articles | 2021
    Weuffen S; Fotinatos N; Andrews T, 2021, 'Evaluating sociocultural influences affecting participation and understanding of academic support services and programs (SSPs): Impacts on notions of attrition, retention, and success in higher education', Journal of College Student Retention Research Theory and Practice, 23, pp. 118 - 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1521025118803847
    Journal articles | 2021
    Weuffen S; Pickford AM, 2021, 'Imagining the possibilities of a cross-cultural oral narrative portraiture method: Stepping beyond binary discourses', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 50, pp. 71 - 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jie.2019.12
    Journal articles | 2020
    Weuffen S; Andrews T; Roberts K, 2020, 'Promoting quality learning and teaching pedagogy: Evaluating a targeted localised academic induction program (AIP) for the impact on continuing professional development', Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 60, pp. 245 - 267
    Journal articles | 2019
    Weuffen S; Cahir F; Barnes A; Powell B, 2019, 'Uncovering Hidden Histories: Evaluating Preservice Teachers’ (PST) Understanding of Local Indigenous Perspectives in History Via Digital Storytelling at Australia’s Sovereign Hill', Diaspora Indigenous and Minority Education, 13, pp. 165 - 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15595692.2019.1615430
    Journal articles | 2019
    Weuffen S, 2019, 'Surveying the landscape five years on: An examination of how teachers, and the teaching of Australia's shared-history, is constructed within Australian academic literature', Teaching and Teacher Education, 78, pp. 117 - 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2018.11.010
    Journal articles | 2017
    Weuffen SL; Cahir F; Pickford AM, 2017, 'The centrality of Aboriginal cultural workshops and experiential learning in a pre-service teacher education course: a regional Victorian University case study', Higher Education Research and Development, 36, pp. 838 - 851, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2016.1242557
    Journal articles | 2016
    Weuffen S; Cahir F; Zeegers M, 2016, 'What's in a name?: Exploring the implications of Eurocentric (Re)naming practices of aboriginal and torres strait islander nomenclature in Australian education practices', Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 45, pp. 181 - 190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jie.2016.2

My Teaching

  • First Nations studies
  • Australian History
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Health and Physical Education
  • Social Justice