By Dr Sara Weuffen

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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