- Title
- Crossing over: Collaborative cross-cultural teaching of Indigenous education in a higher education context
- Creator
- Morgan, Shirley; Golding, Barry
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/46119
- Identifier
- vital:4018
- Identifier
- ISSN:1326-0111
- Abstract
- This paper explores the dynamics and outcomes from a collaborative cross-cultural approach to teaching an Indigenous education elective unit in a Bachelor of Education (Primary) undergraduate degree at the University of Ballarat in 2009. The three facilitators, one non-Aboriginal and two Aboriginal were a lecturer, an Aboriginal Centre Manager and Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group member from the Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative respectively. The paper explores the open-ended and collaborative approach used to facilitate the learning, including pedagogies, activities and assessment. The paper, and the collaborative cross-cultural teaching approach it arguably embodies, is presented as a model of desirable practice with undergraduate education students, in particular for pre-service teachers undertaking a P-10 Bachelor of Education degree. As we describe later in the paper, these pre-service teachers, with some exceptions, in general had very limited and often stereotyped knowledge and experience of Aboriginal education, Aboriginal students or Aboriginal perspectives in other areas of the school curriculum. The teaching process we adopted and that we articulate in this paper attempted to address this previous lack of engagement with the subject matter of Indigenous education by actively modelling the processes of local Aboriginal consultation and collaboration that we were trying to teach.
- Relation
- The Australian Journal of Indigenous education Vol. 39, no. (2010), p. 8-14
- Rights
- Can use published version
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
- Subject
- 1303 Specialist Studies In Education; Indigenous people; Teaching and learning; Students; Culture and society; Higher education
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