Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2022-2024
MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2021-2024
MURDOCH-S2-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING
OUA-OUA3-EXT-2020-2024
OUA-S1-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING
OUA-S2-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Students will be able to identify and evaluate key features of Indigenous community development

2.

Students will be able to examine and critically discuss key pieces of historic Western Australian legislation and the practical implications for Indigenous communities.

3.

Students will contribute to discussions related to the range of contextual factors that shape contemporary Indigenous community development.

4.

Students will produce a reflective journal that integrates their lived experience and the unit content to demonstrate their enhanced understanding of the role of community development practitioners in Indigenous communities. 

5.

Students will create a professional development workshop proposal to demonstrate the practical application of key Indigenous community development theory within the workplace setting. 

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:
  1. Introduction to unit
  2. Beyond Black and White workshop
  3. Truth telling: Historical policy and real-life implications
  4. Indigenous Standpoint and the Cultural Interface
  5. Features of Indigenous Community Development
  6. Case Study 1: Wungening Aboriginal Corporation
  7. The Stolen Generations
  8. The Third Space and Community Development
  9. Case Study 2: Kimberley Land Council
  10. Deficit discourse and strengths-based CD
  11. Walking alongside Indigenous communities
  12. Review of the unit