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C2 - Indigenous perspectives |
  
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- Informing principles
- Goals
- Strategic alignment
- Details of Faculty support for an 18 month period
- Tasks, timelines & budgets
- Total Resources/ Budget Required
- Required documentation and policy rewriting
- Professional development requirements
- Scholarship opportunities
- Communication Plan
- Evaluation strategies
Informing principles
DEST guideline for Indigenous Education Strategy and Indigenous Education Statement
http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/indigenous_education/programmes_funding/indigenous_education_statements.htm
Goals
Development of online resources for faculties
Develop exemplars of how disciplines have embedded Indigenous Perspectives
Develop a series of discipline-specific flyers
Develop template for integration of Indigenous perspectives.
Inform LTSU faculty reps LTD and ALS of progress for new resources, exemplars and flyers.
Strategic alignment
Academic Professional Development subproject
LTSU resources
Graduate qualities and skills and Benchmarking/Evaluation
Details of Faculty support for an 18 month period
Work with faculties to use template to embed Indigenous Perspectives.
Tasks, timelines & budgets
Tasks | Timelines | Budget |
Online Resources DVD resource for Bachelor of Human Services F/C View raw footage Identify relevant footage List timelines Edit on computer Record to DVD | End of April | 10 hours |
Interviews in TV Studio Phillip Falk Wendy Nolan Merinda Thompson Judith Standen Louise Alexander Sorita McGrane | Completed Completed Meeting 17 April for preparation. Record Friday 18 April 2008 Meeting 17 April for preparation. Record Friday 18 April 2008 Meeting 17 April for preparation. Record Tuesday 13 May 2008 Meeting Monday 21 April. Record Wednesday 23 April 2008 | 2 hours 2 hours 4 hours 4 hours 2 hours 4 hours |
Crossing Cultures Workshops These workshops have been developed to assist with an understanding of the history of Indigenous Australia and the impact this has on contemporary Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous. Objectives: why improving outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students is important. discussion on some basic facts that aren’t always well known about Australia’s Indigenous peoples. support and resources to assist in inclusive curriculum design, particularly embedding Indigenous perspectives Workshops arranged through Faculty LTECs and Academic Development in LTSU. | 16 July 17 September 19 November |
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Exemplars How Indigenous perspectives has been embedded in various disciplines. Must be done after working with faculties to embed Indigenous perspectives. | December 2008 but will need to occur in time with reaccreditation |
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Discipline specific flyers Faculty of Education Faculty of Sciences (Nursing) Faculty of Sciences (Psychology) Faculty of Arts (various disciplines) Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Business (various disciplines) | 30 April 2008 30 April 2008 30 April 2008 December 2008 December 2008 December 2008 | 4 weeks |
Template for Integration of Indigenous perspectives * In consultation with Megan Kek, develop a template to map Indigenous perspectives across a program. Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. | Completed | 2 hours |
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Total Resources/ Budget Required
All resources of time for the Indigenous Education Consultant are required to implement the project.
Required documentation and policy rewriting
The Indigenous Education Strategy is not a formal document at USQ. This strategy is a requirement in order for all Indigenous education issues and staffing can progress. In particular, the Strategy will have an important role in Embedding Indigenous perspectives through providing curriculum advice and current resources to the university.
Professional development requirements
Crossing Cultures workshop – located on LTSU website at http://www.usq.edu.au/learnteach/develop/pdprogram/default.htm
Scholarship opportunities
Working with academic staff to publish work undertaken to embed Indigenous perspectives and general Indigenous education issues.
Written and presented paper about Indigenous Pedagogy in February 2008.
Communication Plan
Communication | Who is | What about | To Whom | What medium | How often |
Indigenous perspectives | Rhonda Hagan CAIK LTSU Project officer 2 | Policy and Strategy approval | LTEC / LTSU Exec | PRP Info newsletter & email updates / Information flyers | Monthly |
Updates and consultation | Indigenous Affairs Committee | As above | Monthly | ||
Strategy and Policy implementation | Faculty Associate Deans (Learning and Teaching) | As above | Monthly | ||
Updates | PVC Social Justice | As above | Monthly |
Evaluation strategies
Qualitative feedback from staff in faculties.
Ongoing evaluation.
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