EUQ657 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledge Societies
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| Unit code: | EUQ657 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $555 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,976 |
| International unit fee | $4,020 |
Unit Outline: Session 1 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | EUQ657 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
In this unit, you will develop your understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing and investigate how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge and perspectives are represented and incorporated into a variety of Australian education experiences. This unit will assist you to interrogate the foundations of your own ways of knowing and develop your abilities to analyse the cultural contexts that underpin education practices in Australia. These understandings will contribute to the development of your own critical practice relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education. The learning in this unit provides essential insights for professionals who design and deliver education initiatives in any field with and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, in diverse educational contexts.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a body of knowledge relating to recent developments in practice relevant to incorporating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing in education experiences. (CLO1.1)
- Use cognitive and critical reflection skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and professional practice or scholarship relating to respectful inclusions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and perspectives in education experiences. (CLO2.1)
- Demonstrate technical and communication skills to design, evaluate implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to the incorporation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing in education experiences. (CLO2.4)
- Apply a high level of personal autonomy and accountability when applying knowledge and skills with creativity and initiative to new situations related the incorporation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and perspectives in education experiences. (CLO3.1)
Content
- Ways to understand knowledge – epistemology, ontology and The Dreaming
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing and being in the world
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge and education practices
- Educators and knowledge holders navigating the cultural interface
- Current initiatives in sharing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge for education purposes
- Protocols for appropriate knowledge practice
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in the following:
- Online modules
- Online discussions
- Readings
- Activities
- Evaluation exercises.
During the unit, you will be required to understand, critically reflect, analyse, synthesise and apply the presented concepts to your own education practice and knowledge traditions.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback on your progress in understanding unit concepts and skills by participating in weekly asynchronous online discussion forums and online learning activities related to the assessment tasks.Specific comments will be provided by your marker on your first assessment that can inform your performance on the second assessment. Detailed feedback will be provided on both assessment submissions.
Formative feedback in this unit will include feedback on one reflection from assessment task 1.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this unit enables you to demonstrate your knowledge and understandings related to respectful inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and knowledge specific to your education context in Australia.
Assessment 1 requires you to reflect on your own knowledge frameworks and ways of knowing as you learn about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, and the ways in which knowledge and education practices intersect.
Assessment 2 requires you to critically analyse how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge sharing initiatives can be respectfully incorporated into an education context you are familiar with.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Reflective journal
Submit four reflections that respond to stimuli provided in the first four weeks of study. These reflections will allow you to critically reflect on:
- your own ways of knowing,
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing,
- the connection between knowledge and education, and
- culturally-informed education practices.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Critique
Analyse an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander education resource that can be used to incorporate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and/or perspectives into an education experience. Explain and navigate the critical issues related to using this resource in an education experience.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Internet access
Resources
You will find additional resource materials provided throughout the online modules.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the ordinary risks associated with general participation in this unit. Workplace Health and Safety protocols associated with computer use will apply.
Students must comply with netiquette guidelines agreed at the outset of the unit and ensure they are professional and respect others in all interactions.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EQ60 Graduate Certificate in Education
- Demonstrate a body of knowledge including understanding recent developments in the field of education (CLO 1.1).
Relates to: ULO1 - Use cognitive and critical reflection skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and professional practice or scholarship in the field of education (CLO2.1).
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to professional practice or scholarship (CLO2.4).
Relates to: ULO3 - Demonstrate application of knowledge and skills with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional practice and/or for further learning with high level personal autonomy and accountability (CLO3.1).
Relates to: ULO4
EQ71 Master of Education
- Demonstrate a body of knowledge including understanding recent developments in the field of education (CLO1.1).
Relates to: ULO1 - Use cognitive and critical reflection skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and professional practice or scholarship in the field of education (CLO2.1).
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to professional education practice or scholarship (CLO2.4).
Relates to: ULO3 - Demonstrate application of knowledge and skills with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional educational practice and/or for further learning with high level personal autonomy and accountability (CLO3.1).
Relates to: ULO4
Unit Outline: Session 3 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | EUQ657 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
In this unit, you will develop your understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing and investigate how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge and perspectives are represented and incorporated into a variety of Australian education experiences. This unit will assist you to interrogate the foundations of your own ways of knowing and develop your abilities to analyse the cultural contexts that underpin education practices in Australia. These understandings will contribute to the development of your own critical practice relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education. The learning in this unit provides essential insights for professionals who design and deliver education initiatives in any field with and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, in diverse educational contexts.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a body of knowledge relating to recent developments in practice relevant to incorporating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing in education experiences. (CLO1.1)
- Use cognitive and critical reflection skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and professional practice or scholarship relating to respectful inclusions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and perspectives in education experiences. (CLO2.1)
- Demonstrate technical and communication skills to design, evaluate implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to the incorporation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing in education experiences. (CLO2.4)
- Apply a high level of personal autonomy and accountability when applying knowledge and skills with creativity and initiative to new situations related the incorporation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and perspectives in education experiences. (CLO3.1)
Content
- Ways to understand knowledge – epistemology, ontology and The Dreaming
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing and being in the world
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge and education practices
- Educators and knowledge holders navigating the cultural interface
- Current initiatives in sharing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge for education purposes
- Protocols for appropriate knowledge practice
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in the following:
- Online modules
- Online discussions
- Readings
- Activities
- Evaluation exercises.
During the unit, you will be required to understand, critically reflect, analyse, synthesise and apply the presented concepts to your own education practice and knowledge traditions.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback on your progress in understanding unit concepts and skills by participating in weekly asynchronous online discussion forums and online learning activities related to the assessment tasks.Specific comments will be provided by your marker on your first assessment that can inform your performance on the second assessment. Detailed feedback will be provided on both assessment submissions.
Formative feedback in this unit will include feedback on one reflection from assessment task 1.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this unit enables you to demonstrate your knowledge and understandings related to respectful inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and knowledge specific to your education context in Australia.
Assessment 1 requires you to reflect on your own knowledge frameworks and ways of knowing as you learn about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, and the ways in which knowledge and education practices intersect.
Assessment 2 requires you to critically analyse how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge sharing initiatives can be respectfully incorporated into an education context you are familiar with.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Reflective journal
Submit four reflections that respond to stimuli provided in the first four weeks of study. These reflections will allow you to critically reflect on:
- your own ways of knowing,
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing,
- the connection between knowledge and education, and
- culturally-informed education practices.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Critique
Analyse an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander education resource that can be used to incorporate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and/or perspectives into an education experience. Explain and navigate the critical issues related to using this resource in an education experience.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Internet access
Resources
You will find additional resource materials provided throughout the online modules.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the ordinary risks associated with general participation in this unit. Workplace Health and Safety protocols associated with computer use will apply.
Students must comply with netiquette guidelines agreed at the outset of the unit and ensure they are professional and respect others in all interactions.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EQ60 Graduate Certificate in Education
- Demonstrate a body of knowledge including understanding recent developments in the field of education (CLO 1.1).
Relates to: ULO1 - Use cognitive and critical reflection skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and professional practice or scholarship in the field of education (CLO2.1).
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to professional practice or scholarship (CLO2.4).
Relates to: ULO3 - Demonstrate application of knowledge and skills with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional practice and/or for further learning with high level personal autonomy and accountability (CLO3.1).
Relates to: ULO4
EQ71 Master of Education
- Demonstrate a body of knowledge including understanding recent developments in the field of education (CLO1.1).
Relates to: ULO1 - Use cognitive and critical reflection skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and professional practice or scholarship in the field of education (CLO2.1).
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to professional education practice or scholarship (CLO2.4).
Relates to: ULO3 - Demonstrate application of knowledge and skills with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional educational practice and/or for further learning with high level personal autonomy and accountability (CLO3.1).
Relates to: ULO4