Cultural Awareness: Non-Indigenous and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Interface

• • Introduction
  • Frontier Violence
  • Barriers to Engagement
  • Understanding Culture
  • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
  • Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Special requirements

No special requirements

Students are enabled to constructively consider the interface of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous issues, histories, cultures and perspectives in education, the curriculum and the ‘hidden curriculum’. The subject has four foci which are integrated: identity/ nationalism, history, ethics and pedagogy. It considers these foci as they relate to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and non-Indigenous students, cultural engagement and racism in education and in Australian society. The subject enables students to develop an ethical position and critical reflection to recognise that cultural engagement in any classroom is contingent on the teacher’s awareness of his/her own cultural positioning; and the process and pedagogy enables students to identify and challenge institutional political, racial and social injustices in education. The subject enables students to own a position from which to be confident and capable to teach the interface of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous histories and perspectives since colonisation and to teach Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous students with cultural insight and respect. The subject fosters deep thinking and engagement with ethical issues that are vital to being an effective and transformative teacher capable of fostering restorative justice and reconciliation.

• Essay (50%%)
• Lesson Outline (50%%)

Current study term: 21 Feb 21 to 30 May 21)

Next study term: 30 May 21 to 11 Jul 21