Cultural Awareness: The Non-indigenous and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander interface unit (EMT691)

Introduction

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 unit 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 unit 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 unit 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 unit 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.

Summary

Unit name	Cultural Awareness: The Non-indigenous and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander interface
Unit code	EMT691
Credit points	6.25
College/School	Arts and Society Faculty of Education
Discipline	Education
Coordinator	Doctor David Hicks
Delivered By	University of Tasmania
Level	Postgraduate

Availability

Specific information on 2027 unit availability will be available in August

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate a critical understanding of the cultural and institutional issues that impact on the capacity and willingness of non-Indigenous people to extend educational justice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and peoples.
• Identify, critically analyse and select local and national teaching and learning resources, and pedagogies, to foster and develop all students’ knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, history and engagement in education.
• Demonstrate evidence of an ethical teaching practice that is effective in realising the goals of restorative justice, in order to achieve educational justice and Reconciliation for all students, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous students.

Fee Information

2027 fee information will be available in August.

Requisites

Concurrent Prerequisites

EMT502

Teaching

Assessment	Essay (50%)|Lesson Sequence (50%)
Timetable	View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable

Textbooks

Required	All required readings are provided within MyLO.
Recommended	The unit contains several recommended readings and useful resources, these are all provided within MyLO.

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