EDST1108 Lecture 7: Why learn about Indigenous perspectives? How to incorporate this?
9 Jun 2018
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Department
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Professor
7. 16/04/18 Why learn about Indigenous perspectives? How to incorporate
this? VALUABLE AND USEFUL FOR ASS. 2.
Guest lecturer - Ruby
As a teacher
• Racism perpetuates - call it out
Australian culture
• Helping out a mate
Why learn about Indigenous perspectives?
1. You’re training to be a teacher
a. Position of power over young people’s lives
b. All students have the right to respect from their teachers
c. I have a responsibility
d. Equity
e. You can embed Indigenous perspectives into every classroom
2. Mainstream Australians hardly ever have access to Indigenous perspectives
. You can seek to embed these at a young age
3. Policy documents require it of us
Ways of teaching and learning
• The way something is taught is incredibly important
• Bring in the complexity, intricacy, and interconnectedness of history
• You are involved
• Abolish deficit perspectives
• Compartmentalised history - YOU are not there - not engaging -
irrelevant then vs. now, us vs. them - reality is far more interconnected
than this
• Include what the students know (about themselves)
Experience of schooling
• ACARA - RESOURCE: table - summary of social and political content in
ACARA curriculum documents
• Building trust in a classroom is very important
• Allowing and understanding anger and frustration where possible is important
What to do?
• Be explicit, expose and acknowledge the institutions and powers at play
• Reveal these systems
• The syllabus is governed by the government (made from and by
Western culture - translation issues between Indigenous cultures and
Western)
• Unpack this, recognise it in class
• Break it apart and be specific
• The cultural interface: different and differing knowledge systems are at play
Complexities
• Learning is a lifelong journey
• Don’t just disregard it as ‘too hard’
• There are multiple truths - they all deserve the same respect
• Strong sense of place and purpose is helpful (this evolves over time)
• LISTEN, SEEK, REFLECT
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Document Summary
As a teacher: racism perpetuates - call it out. Why learn about indigenous perspectives: you"re training to be a teacher. All students have the right to respect from their teachers. You can embed indigenous perspectives into every classroom: mainstream australians hardly ever have access to indigenous perspectives. You can seek to embed these at a young age: policy documents require it of us. Experience of schooling: acara - resource: table - summary of social and political content in. Acara curriculum documents: building trust in a classroom is very important, allowing and understanding anger and frustration where possible is important. What to do: be explicit, expose and acknowledge the institutions and powers at play, reveal these systems, the syllabus is governed by the government (made from and by. Western culture - translation issues between indigenous cultures and. Western: unpack this, recognise it in class, break it apart and be specific, the cultural interface: different and differing knowledge systems are at play.
