Teaching Aboriginal and Western Approaches To Management Alongside Each Other: One Approach For Decolonising Management Education

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Keywords: Decolonising, Introductory Management, Aboriginal Philosophies

Abstract: Responding to calls to decolonise the management curriculum (Dar et al., 2021; Doucette et al., 2021, Woods et al. 2022), we present an activity for teaching Aboriginal and Western approaches to management alongside each other. Our approach is developing as part of a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous management academics and is guided by Dyck’s (2017) pedagogical framework which involves teaching diverse management approaches side-by-side. We help students identify the values of Individualism and Materialism that underpin the management discipline and present the values of Relationality and Caring for Country as equal and valid alternatives (Graham, 1999; Kwaymullina, 2005).