ACSA BIENNIAL CURRICULUM
CONFERENCE
Developing pedagogical practice
through culturally inclusive
curriculum
Biography
Kym Walker is Batjala person from Fraser Coast
Queensland. Kym has a long history in cross discipline
curriculum development and consultation with Indigenous
Studies and Cultural Competence programs.
Bruce Pridham and Dona Martin have expertise in
conceptualising innovative higher education curricula,
particularly in relation to teacher education.
Our aim was to produce a subject
that provides:
• well structured, inclusive, cross-curricula education
partnerships
• quality Indigenous education for undergraduate teachers
• culturally appropriate pedagogical practice through
culturally inclusive curriculum.
• The opportunity for students to reflect using the 4R’s
model
• clear alignment with ACSA’s Australian curriculum
principles.
EDU3IED – Subject Intended
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject, you should be
able to:
1.Investigate Australian Indigenous culture in schools and
community.
2.Explain the issues that impact on Indigenous learners
and how they influence educational outcomes.
3.Critically examine personal assumptions, preconceptions
and values when relating to Indigenous Australia.
4.Design Indigenous curriculum opportunities and teaching
resources, incorporating educational technologies.
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AITSL – Australian Professional
Standards for Teachers
1.4
Demonstrate broad knowledge and understanding of the
impact of culture, cultural identity and linguistic background
on the education of students from Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander backgrounds.
2.4
Demonstrate broad knowledge of, understanding of and
respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories,
cultures and languages.
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The participants
Our campus of La Trobe University is situated in
Bendigo, a rural city in Central Victoria. The teacher
education course that hosts our subject provides multicampus curricula for both our Central Victorian campus
and a Northern Victorian campus at Mildura.
The unit of work discussed here is accessed across a
variety of courses (numbers grow by the year);
currently it houses around 195 students per year,
approximately 8% of whom are Indigenous.
4R’s a reflective model
Our version of the 5R’s of reflection model (Bain,
Allantyne, Mills, and Lester (2002).
Reporting
Responding
Reporting
Relating
Reasoning
Reconstructing
Relating
Reasoning
Reconstructing
We collapsed the
first two headings
into one heading
We wanted to
verbally elicit
Respones about
observations,
feelings and
questions about
issues
Our 4 R’s Model
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Reporting
• Descriptive
account of the
situation,
incident or issue
• Storytelling
Relating
• Drawing a
relationship between
current personal or
theoretical
understandings and
the situation, incident
or issue
• Indigenous
relationship
Reasoning
• An exploration,
interrogation or
explanation of the
situation, incident or
issue
• Lore
Reconstructing
• Drawing a conclusion
and developing a
future action plan
based upon a
reasoned
understanding of the
situation, incident or
issue.
• Passing knowledge
on for others to learn
Indigenous
Education
EDU3IED
Session
Date
Topic
1
Room
3.20/3.22
July
30 & 31
Intro Welcome to
Country
2
Aug
6&7
Cultural Awareness
Kym Walker
3
Aug
13 & 14
Indigenous Education
Policy
Matthew Holmes &
Loddon Mallee KESO
Team
4
Aug
20 & 21
Changing Indigenous
Education Outcomes
5
Aug
27 & 28
Stolen Generation
impact on education
6
Sep
3&4
Parenting and
Teaching Indigenous
Students
Donna Widdicombe
7
Room
3.20/3.22
Sep
10 & 11
Indigenous Literacy
Esme Bamblett
ceo@aal.org.au
8
Sep
17 & 18
Indigenous Education
Programs
9
Sep
24 & 25
Indigenous Languages
Oct
1&2
10
11
12
13
Oct
8 &9
Oct
15 & 16
Oct
22 & 23
Oct
29 & 30
Lecturer
Welcome to Country
Dja Dja Wurrung
Aboriginal Co-op
Bendigo 54442888
Stephanie Armstrong
Prac
Prac
Prac
Reflection 1:
Midnight Monday
August 5th
Reflection 2:
Midnight Monday
August 20th
Kutcha Edwards
Cathy@netspace,com.au
Reflection 3:
Midnight Monday
September 2nd
Sandra Brogden
“What Works Program”
Paul Paton EO Vic
Aboriginal Corp for
Languages
ppaton@vaclang.org.au
96003811
Action Plan:
Midnight Monday
11 October
Mid Semester Break
Reconciliation and The
Apology
Assessment
Bendigo LAECG
Magazine
Article:
Final submission:
Midnight Monday
28 October
Bringing it all together
• The 4R’s Model enables our students to build unique
records of their learning, and to recognise that they now,
through direct engagement with the issues, feel better
equipped to be responsible decision-makers.
• Our students demonstrate through assessment a
developing self-awareness of Cultural Competence and
a stronger capacity to present as informed teachers,
teachers who are better equipped to work in an
environment alert to the needs of Indigenous Education.
Thank You
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