By Dr Sara Weuffen

Books

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

Book Chapters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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