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Discussion Questions

Q1- Can anyone summarise the importance of having aboriginal knowledge in the curriculum

Q2- Do you guys understand the importance of incorporating teaching aboriginal knowledge in relation to the curriculum in your future classrooms in a meaningful way

Reference List

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics (2010) Indigenous Statistics for Schools. Retrieved from http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/CaSHome.nsf/4a256353001af3ed4b2562bb00121564/be2634628102566bca25758b00116c3d!OpenDocument
  • Burgess. C & Cavanagh. P. (2012) Real Stories, Extraordinary people. Preliminary findings on an Aboriginal community -controlled cultural immersion program for local teachers. in Jan Wright Proceedings of the 2012 Joint International Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) and the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA). University of Sydney, 2-6 December 2012.
  • Harrison. N & Greenfield. M. (2011). Relationship to Place: Positioning Aboriginal knowledge and Perspectves in classroom pedagogies. Retrieved from http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/primary/hsie/prolearn/reading/Relationship_to_place_Doc1.doc.
  • Yunkaporta, Tyson (2009) Aboriginal pedagogies at the cultural interface. PhD thesis, James Cook University.
  • Yunkaporta, T. (2009). Aboriginal Pedagogies at the Cultural Interface. Draft Report for DET on Indigenous Research Project conducted by Tyson Yunkaporta, Aboriginal Education Consultant, in Western NSW Region Schools, 2007-2009. Darlinghurst: DET.
  • Yunkaporta, T., & McGinty, S. (2009). Reclaiming Aboriginal Knowledge at the Cultural Interface. The Australian Educational Reserarcher, 36(2), 55-72.
  • Godinho, S., Woolley, M., Webb, J., & Winkel, K. (2014). Regenerating Indigenous literacy resourcefulness: A middle school intervention. Literacy Learning: The Middle Years, 22(1), 7.
  • (2014) 8wayswikispace. Retrieved from http://8ways.wikispaces.com/

Tyson Yunkaporta's 8 ways of learning

1) We connect through the stories we share

2) We picture our pathways of knowledge

3) We see, think, act, make and share without words

4) We keep and share knowledge with art and objects

5) We work with lessons from land and nature

6) We put different ideas together and create new knowledge

7) We work from wholes to parts, watching and then doing

8) We bring new knowledge home to help our mob

Yarn and tell stories as a way into the learning.

Create a shared image (concrete or visualised) of the pathway the learning is taking.

Use non-verbal methods as well – reflection, demonstration, hands-on practical, etc. Encourage non-verbal systems of feedback from students – gestures, facial cues etc.

Create visual texts as well as print texts (e.g. mind-maps, diagrams etc.)

Locate the knowledge – where it’s from. Connect to country – use natural metaphors from the local landscape to reinforce the learning.

Bring together different cultural viewpoints to create a shared metalanguage of what you’re learning. Students co-create the knowledge. Take a roundabout route to learning outcomes. Innovate, create, exchange, adapt, synthesise.

Model assessment tasks before expecting students to do them. Balance instruction with independent learning.

Always relate content back to local community contexts and find the relevance for the students. Where possible, find ways to make the new knowledge benefit local community through presentations, projects, etc.

"Every place, Every people has its own unique pedagogies"

The Importance of 8 Ways and implementing aboriginal knowledge into the curriculum

Evoking Change

This framework is a way to provide meaningful links to Aboriginal heritage, in a way which is relevant to Aboriginal students' identities and backgrounds.

- 8 Ways helps to promote better engagement in class

- Retention rates can be improved by utilising the framework effectively

- Increases the likelihood of Aboriginal students to complete their secondary education

-Provides a cultural link which reaffirms their identity in the classroom

Introduction

Yunkaporta's

"8 Aboriginal Ways of Learning"

Today's Lesson consists of:

- An explanation of 8 Ways

- The importance of implementing 8 ways to your classrooms

- A case study analysis

- A class activity using mini whiteboards

- Concluding discussion

Statistics

Case Study-Regenerating Indigenous literacy resourcefulness: A middle school intervention

  • The Learning on Country program was started to combat issues of middle school engagement.
  • The purpose of the program is to allow students to learn physically ‘on country’ through use of day trips and bush camps.
  • A central aspect of the program is to acknowledge the fact that “in remote communities, Indigenous knowledge and local development aspirations must be a central component of teachers’ practice and their pedagogic design”
  • Focus: School attendance and halving the achievement gap between Indigenous students and non- Indigenous students.
  • Two-way teaching and learning

Discussion question: How were the 8 ways used in this particular case study?

ACTIVITY

Now using mini whiteboards brainstorm ideas as future teachers how you would implement 8 ways in a classroom with your assigned subject.

Try and choose a specific lesson topic and relate it back to aboriginal knowledge or perspectives using one or more of the 8 ways as discussed in this lesson

By Jennifer Nicholas and Samantha Meyer

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