Kylie Day
Biographic Data
| ID | 4218813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kylie Day |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kylie |
| FAMILY NAME | Day |
| SIGNATURE | DAY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Cross University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0202-7808 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Learning with country, rewriting care
This article develops a decolonial sociological framework grounded in Indigenous epistemologies and demonstrates its significance through kinship care. The framework brings together five commitments: relational ontology; Country and place-based epistemology; collective responsibility and kinship governance; Indigenous sovereignty over knowledge and data; and relational accountability in research and practice. Rather than supplementing established…
Unravelling colonial threads
This manuscript highlights the voices of Bundjalung elders in northeastern New South Wales, focusing on the impacts of colonization, such as the continued (un)raveling of cultural practices. The authors explore how colonialism perpetuates the exclusion of Indigenous worldviews and knowledge. Nonetheless, Indigenous peoples continue to strongly demand and advocate for meaningful recognition and protection of their cultural property and heritage, r…
Relational Pedagogy
Kanyini in education and health; if it's safe, they will stay
Love, like culture, lives when it is performed.Love is strong and powerful; you cannot see it, but you sense and feel it".Kanyini, the nurturing care a mother has for their child is the atmosphere needed in education and health care for Indigenous Australian Peoples to thrive.This concept emerged as a synergy when an Indigenist methodology was used to explore the yarns of 18 local Knowledge Givers and Elders in two studies, and then interpreted b…
Resilient Epistemologies
Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) are grounded in relationality, land-based learning, and intergenerational practice. This research centres those knowledges through the integration of yarning as both method and methodology, alongside a structured framework adapted from Crotty (1998), to support ethical, culturally grounded, and socially just inquiry. Grounded in relationships with Aboriginal communities on Bundjalung Country (Northern NSW, Austr…
Australian Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Grandparents have a long history of assuming caregiving responsibilities, particularly in Indigenous communities, where the concepts of “kin” and “care” are expansive. In Australia, there has been a rise in grandparents becoming custodial carers for their grandchildren who cannot live with their parents, biological or otherwise. Placement with relatives or family friends is known as kinship care, with most of these families headed by grandparents…
Young people’s lived experience of relational practices in therapeutic residential care in Australia
Reflections of 'Doing' Research that Involves Trauma
This paper examines the experiences of four researchers engaged in a study with young people residing in therapeutic residential care facilities in an Australian state. These young people, often under 18 years of age, have complex needs stemming from experiences of abuse, neglect, or family breakdown. We explore the challenges, ethical considerations, and personal impact of conducting this trauma-intensive research through a collaborative and ref…
Aboriginal dance as pedagogy
Indigenous dance is a methodology used to convey stories of survival and reform within each Aboriginal language group in Australia. The Bundjalung Nation is the cultural group where we are situated in northern New South Wales. Jagun is a local Bundjalung language term for Country. This article explores the synergies with world literature and Bundjalung Elder voices associated with Indigenous dance practices as a methodology for decolonising class…
How is therapeutic residential care constructed within key policy documents
Therapeutic residential care (TRC) is a mode of delivering out‐of‐home care (OOHC) that can help meet the needs of some of Australia's most vulnerable young people and their families. TRC programmes aim to support young people to develop positive relationship experiences in a safe and stable environment. Given that TRC is a relatively new model of intervention, to date, the alignment between its aspirational aims and the existing and evolving pol…
The most challenging aspect of this journey has been dealing with child protection”
When children cannot live at home with their parents, a placement with relatives or family friends has become a preferred first option in many Western countries in out-of-home care systems. Whilst practised by Indigenous communities for centuries, this is a relatively new model of out-of-home care in Western child welfare systems. Kinship care has emerged as a form of care that is arguably worth investing in. It offers kin children the opportunit…
Young people’s lived experience of relational practices in therapeutic residential care in Australia
How is therapeutic residential care constructed within key policy documents
Therapeutic residential care (TRC) is a mode of delivering out‐of‐home care (OOHC) that can help meet the needs of some of Australia's most vulnerable young people and their families. TRC programmes aim to support young people to develop positive relationship experiences in a safe and stable environment. Given that TRC is a relatively new model of intervention, to date, the alignment between its aspirational aims and the existing and evolving pol…
Australian Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Grandparents have a long history of assuming caregiving responsibilities, particularly in Indigenous communities, where the concepts of “kin” and “care” are expansive. In Australia, there has been a rise in grandparents becoming custodial carers for their grandchildren who cannot live with their parents, biological or otherwise. Placement with relatives or family friends is known as kinship care, with most of these families headed by grandparents…
Reflections of 'Doing' Research that Involves Trauma
This paper examines the experiences of four researchers engaged in a study with young people residing in therapeutic residential care facilities in an Australian state. These young people, often under 18 years of age, have complex needs stemming from experiences of abuse, neglect, or family breakdown. We explore the challenges, ethical considerations, and personal impact of conducting this trauma-intensive research through a collaborative and ref…
Aboriginal dance as pedagogy
Indigenous dance is a methodology used to convey stories of survival and reform within each Aboriginal language group in Australia. The Bundjalung Nation is the cultural group where we are situated in northern New South Wales. Jagun is a local Bundjalung language term for Country. This article explores the synergies with world literature and Bundjalung Elder voices associated with Indigenous dance practices as a methodology for decolonising class…
The most challenging aspect of this journey has been dealing with child protection”
When children cannot live at home with their parents, a placement with relatives or family friends has become a preferred first option in many Western countries in out-of-home care systems. Whilst practised by Indigenous communities for centuries, this is a relatively new model of out-of-home care in Western child welfare systems. Kinship care has emerged as a form of care that is arguably worth investing in. It offers kin children the opportunit…
The most challenging aspect of this journey has been dealing with child protection”
When children cannot live at home with their parents, a placement with relatives or family friends has become a preferred first option in many Western countries in out-of-home care systems. Whilst practised by Indigenous communities for centuries, this is a relatively new model of out-of-home care in Western child welfare systems. Kinship care has emerged as a form of care that is arguably worth investing in. It offers kin children the opportunit…
Aboriginal dance as pedagogy
Indigenous dance is a methodology used to convey stories of survival and reform within each Aboriginal language group in Australia. The Bundjalung Nation is the cultural group where we are situated in northern New South Wales. Jagun is a local Bundjalung language term for Country. This article explores the synergies with world literature and Bundjalung Elder voices associated with Indigenous dance practices as a methodology for decolonising class…
How is therapeutic residential care constructed within key policy documents
Therapeutic residential care (TRC) is a mode of delivering out‐of‐home care (OOHC) that can help meet the needs of some of Australia's most vulnerable young people and their families. TRC programmes aim to support young people to develop positive relationship experiences in a safe and stable environment. Given that TRC is a relatively new model of intervention, to date, the alignment between its aspirational aims and the existing and evolving pol…
Kanyini in education and health; if it's safe, they will stay
Love, like culture, lives when it is performed.Love is strong and powerful; you cannot see it, but you sense and feel it".Kanyini, the nurturing care a mother has for their child is the atmosphere needed in education and health care for Indigenous Australian Peoples to thrive.This concept emerged as a synergy when an Indigenist methodology was used to explore the yarns of 18 local Knowledge Givers and Elders in two studies, and then interpreted b…
Resilient Epistemologies
Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) are grounded in relationality, land-based learning, and intergenerational practice. This research centres those knowledges through the integration of yarning as both method and methodology, alongside a structured framework adapted from Crotty (1998), to support ethical, culturally grounded, and socially just inquiry. Grounded in relationships with Aboriginal communities on Bundjalung Country (Northern NSW, Austr…
Australian Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Grandparents have a long history of assuming caregiving responsibilities, particularly in Indigenous communities, where the concepts of “kin” and “care” are expansive. In Australia, there has been a rise in grandparents becoming custodial carers for their grandchildren who cannot live with their parents, biological or otherwise. Placement with relatives or family friends is known as kinship care, with most of these families headed by grandparents…
Young people’s lived experience of relational practices in therapeutic residential care in Australia
Reflections of 'Doing' Research that Involves Trauma
This paper examines the experiences of four researchers engaged in a study with young people residing in therapeutic residential care facilities in an Australian state. These young people, often under 18 years of age, have complex needs stemming from experiences of abuse, neglect, or family breakdown. We explore the challenges, ethical considerations, and personal impact of conducting this trauma-intensive research through a collaborative and ref…
Learning with country, rewriting care
This article develops a decolonial sociological framework grounded in Indigenous epistemologies and demonstrates its significance through kinship care. The framework brings together five commitments: relational ontology; Country and place-based epistemology; collective responsibility and kinship governance; Indigenous sovereignty over knowledge and data; and relational accountability in research and practice. Rather than supplementing established…
Unravelling colonial threads
This manuscript highlights the voices of Bundjalung elders in northeastern New South Wales, focusing on the impacts of colonization, such as the continued (un)raveling of cultural practices. The authors explore how colonialism perpetuates the exclusion of Indigenous worldviews and knowledge. Nonetheless, Indigenous peoples continue to strongly demand and advocate for meaningful recognition and protection of their cultural property and heritage, r…
Relational Pedagogy
Indigenous (6 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (5 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Traditional knowledge (3 works) · Australian Indigenous Culture and History (2 works)