Activity: Assess the Australian education system through the framework of the International Labour Organisation’s Convention No. 169.
In Australia, we have still not yet arrived at the best way for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia to achieve cultural rights or economic justice as outlined in the International Labour Organisation’s Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (ILO169) (Ma Rhea, Z & Anderson, P 2011).
Activity
Have Ma Rhea and Anderson’s paper ‘Economic justice and indigenous education: Assessing the potential of standards-based and progressive education under ILO169’ (six pages) available for students on e-reserve/equella so that it can be read in preparation. Full text available from Informit: http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=337378394206835;res=IELLCC
At the beginning of the tutorial, as a whole group, discuss what Ma Rhea and Anderson are advocating in this paper.
Introduce/give background and as a whole group watch the YouTube clip QandA: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks: “I am not the problem” speech for John Pilger’s ‘Utopia’. Available at https://youtu.be/Xto5mqxfDAw (this runs for 6m 31s).
youtu.be/Xto5mqxfDAw
Synthesise: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks discusses that it is not Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People who are the problem, but rather the failure of Australia to adequately place Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples at the centre of the nation’s psyche.
Think, Write, Pair, Share: With this in mind, how could you build the concept of personhood[1] into the knowledge of your learners through curriculum and pedagogy?
Students raise questions about something they either were unsure about or about which they need clarification.
The Think-Write-Pair-Share activity poses the question to students that they must consider alone, jotting down points, and then discuss with a partner before settling on a final response. In this TPS activity partner “sharing” is followed up using student responses for a whole group shared discussion.
References
Kunoth-Monks, R 2014, ‘”I am not the problem” speech for John Pilger’s ‘Utopia’, video, YouTube, viewed 18 May 2016, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xto5mqxfDAw&feature=youtu.be>.
Ma Rhea, Z & Anderson, P 2011, ‘Economic justice and Indigenous education: Assessing the potential of standards-based and progressive education under ILO169’, Social Alternatives, vol. 30, iss. 4, pp. 25–31.
[1] Personhood: the condition of being a person who is an individual with inalienable rights.
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In Australia, we have still not yet arrived at the best way for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia to achieve cultural rights or economic justice as outlined in the International Labour Organisation’s Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (ILO169) (Ma Rhea, Z & Anderson, P 2011).
Activity
youtu.be/Xto5mqxfDAw
The Think-Write-Pair-Share activity poses the question to students that they must consider alone, jotting down points, and then discuss with a partner before settling on a final response. In this TPS activity partner “sharing” is followed up using student responses for a whole group shared discussion.
References
Kunoth-Monks, R 2014, ‘”I am not the problem” speech for John Pilger’s ‘Utopia’, video, YouTube, viewed 18 May 2016, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xto5mqxfDAw&feature=youtu.be>.
Ma Rhea, Z & Anderson, P 2011, ‘Economic justice and Indigenous education: Assessing the potential of standards-based and progressive education under ILO169’, Social Alternatives, vol. 30, iss. 4, pp. 25–31.