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MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2020-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2020-ONGOING

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Learning outcomes

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Students will be contribute to weekly online discussions related to the range of contextual factors that shape different forms of community work with Indigenous communities

2.

Students will be able to draw upon a range of genres and cultural forms used by Indigenous groups to tell their stories of community-driven initiatives, understand the ways in which legislation and policy, audience, institutional context, history and practice form impacts on their lives.

3.

Students will be able to prepare a digital ‘story’ to pitch the merits of a community-based project in an Indigenous community.

4.

Students will be able to carry out desk-top research and write a short essay on at least three Indigenous conceptual devices used in community practice. Bibliography designed to review the importance of story in community.

5.

Students will participate in one ‘on-country’ (off campus) and ‘online’ field trip, visiting a community development project that involves Indigenous people.

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Additional information

Unit content:The unit introduces students to the task of working in conjunction with Indigenous Australian communities. It begins with an examination of the history of ‘outsider’ responses (including legislation, policy and practice) to the lives of Indigenous communities. This is contrasted with an exploration of a range of ways (including autobiography, film, visual arts, theatre, song and oration) Indigenous groups articulate community stories, needs and solutions. In addition, students will be introduced to a range of Indigenous language conceptual devices that have been used to shape ‘community-controlled’ work.
Other notes:Written Assignments, reading, creation of a digital ‘story’, viewing of practice examples and a field visit.