Koori Education

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Permalink Reply by Kerry Franta on June 15, 2009 at 1:31pm

Hi Heather, I noticed on the Oz_TLNet email discussions that there was a reference to Edna for its cross-sectoral page on Indigenous education which provides resources to support Aboriginal culture. This might be of interest to you.

http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/pid/3304

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Permalink Reply by Heather Graham on June 15, 2009 at 2:37pm

Thanks Kerry. I'll pass this info onto my Action Team.

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Permalink Reply by Jeni Thornley on June 21, 2009 at 3:28pm

Hi Heather,

You may have seen the posts on Enhance for Island Home Country:

TV PREMIERE
Sunday June 28th 8.30pm ABC TV 2
Sunday July 5th 3pm ABC TV 1

Island Home Country - a poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonized history and how it impacts into the present.

There is an Island Home Country facebook page
http://utsedu.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114949691100&ref=mf

ATOM Study Guide at: http://www.jenithornley.com
and http://www.metromagazine.com.au
Documentary blog filmmaking process with educational links: blog: http://jenithornleydoco.blogspot.com/

The film’s six chapters - Amnesia, Possession, Memory, Mourning, Encounter, Reckoning - convey the movement of the protocols process that the filmmaker worked with including Respect, Aboriginal Control, Communication, Consultation and Consent and Proper Returns. (The ATOM Study Guide includes resource links to various protocol documents.
Students can research film related Indigenous Protocols such as SBS and ABC protocols and also explore projects that ask them to think through how they might work with Protocols on a project.

Tommorrow am Monday 22.6.09 at 4.15 am ABC Overnights (radio talk back) are doing an in interview with me about the film - and talkback - on these topics. “How many of us grew up with little or no knowledge of Australian history – particulary of colonial times and interaction with indigenous peoples? What happens when you start to explore that history - both our national history and our personal history? I think you can get as a podcast .

DVD's and Study Guides from http://www.jenithornley.com/ and The Education Shop.
Schools , TAFE & University libraries can also copy off air via screenrights: http://www.screen.org

cheers Jeni

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Permalink Reply by Marion Douglas on August 3, 2009 at 11:40am

Hi Heather. What school are you teaching at and what level is it? Marion

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Permalink Reply by Heather Graham on August 3, 2009 at 12:25pm

Hi Marion. I'm actually not a teacher but the AV/library assistant at Rosebud Secondary College. I'm involved with our Koori Action Research team. We have the highest number of Koori kids enrolled here on the peninsula. Koori education is just in its infantcy here, so I am just looking at what is available.

Marion Douglas said:

Hi Heather. What school are you teaching at and what level is it? Marion

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