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Learning from the voices of our Indigenous teachers. Dr Ren Perkins

This presentation highlighted some of the key findings from Ren's PhD study - Indigenous teachers’ voices on why they remain in the profession. Ren is a Quandamooka man that also has connections with the Wakka Wakka Nation. His positioning as an Indigenous researcher with over twenty years working in Indigenous education has contributed to his research and providing another Aboriginal voice to the literature in Indigenous education in Australia. His research utilised a strengths-based approach to look at the strengths and value that Indigenous teachers contributed to the profession. Indigenous voices are seldom heard in the field of education in Australia (Hall, 2013; Woodroffe, 2020). The findings from his research addresses the gap within the existing literature, that is, to provide Indigenous-led research with Indigenous teachers, to privilege their voices, experiences, and advice as to what helped them remain in the profession. Themes within the data such as strength-based approach, dealing with racism and relationships are not currently in the literature. The findings identified three themes: motivational factors, relationships, and role models. The research design of his study utilised an Indigenist research standpoint (Rigney, 1999) and yarning (Bessarab & Ng'Andu, 2010; Shay, 2019).