Helen Verran

Photo of David Wade Chambers and Helen Verran holding 'Singing the land, Signing the land'

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Helen Verran - 'Doing Difference Differently: Deakin STS in the late 1980s'

New Scientist - 'The Way of Logic'

This 'New Scientist' piece, published in December 1995, documents Helen Verran's research into the knowledge systems of Yolngu people of northern Australia. It draws on direct quotes from an interview with Helen Verran. Read more

Photo of Helen Verran at Awolowo Obafemi University

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Deakin University STS Teaching Materials

Science Worlds: An Integrated Approach to Social Studies of Science Teaching

Seeing a World in a Grain of Sand: Science Teaching in a Multicultural Context

Science and Society Curricula and Course Materials

Medicine and Society Curricula and Course Materials

Knowledge Making Curricula and Course Materials

Knowledge Using Curricula and Course Material

Singing the land, signing the land (Digital Publication)

Maps are Territories (Digital Publication)

Freshwater Lobster

Water Goannas and Water Dreaming (Djangkawu Sisters)

Crocodile and Sacred Fire Dreaming

Dugong and Fire Dreaming

Science and an African Logic

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CDU STS Researchers - 'Doing difference differently in Northern Australia today: Ground Up mobilisation of Indigenous and STS concepts'

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The Politics of Knowing and Being Known

In this 1990 essay, Helen Verran discusses the ways in which the Yolngu people of northern Austrtalia 'are engaging in the politics of knowing and being known in a systematic endeavour to halt and to reverse the impulse for domination of European-dervied Australia' (Verran, 1990: 127). Read more

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