‘White’, ‘Ethnic’ and ‘Indigenous’. Pre-service teachers reflect
on discourses of ethnicity in Australian culture Hickling-
Hudson, Anne R. (2005) ‘White’, ‘Ethnic’ and ‘Indigenous’. Pre-
service teachers reflect on discourses of ethnicity in
Australian culture. Policy Futures in Education, 3(4), pp.
340-358. A cornerstone of my pedagogy as a teacher educator is
to help students analyse how their culture and socialisation
influence their role as teachers. In this paper, I share the
reflections of my Australian students on their culture. As part
of their coursework in a 4th Year B.Ed. elective subject,
Cultural Diversity and Education, students reflect on and
address questions of how they have been socialised to regard
Anglo-Australian, Indigenous and non-British migrant cultures in
their society. Some recall that their early conditioning
cultivated a deep fear of Aborigines, and a tokenistic
understanding of ethnicity. Others talk of their confusion
between the pulls of assimilation into mainstream ‘whiteness’