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Not offered in 2020

Unit description

Bringing together community to develop and articulate community-based Indigenous Knowledge, this unit helps to narrate community reality. Respectful engagement with Indigenous Communities will make community-based knowledge visible, and allow this knowledge to be utilised to achieve successful outcomes as defined by and experienced by the members of those communities.

Unit content

The unit covers the following topics:

  1. Best practice in community engagement with examples from within Australia and internationally. Critical analysis of the nature and dynamics of community engagement in specific locations and community contexts, including professions or discipline areas.
  2. Long-term and sustainable processes that can be measured across a range of interconnected areas such as individual and community wellbeing, economic development and stability, resource security and socio-cultural sustainability.
  3. Indigenous Knowledge as a process that is developed in relationship with community
  4. Developing narratives that can represent community-based Indigenous Knowledge to other people.
  5. Rights and responsibilities within relationships with community
  6. Urban and rural community-based Indigenous Knowledge development
  7. International Indigenous perspectives on community-based Indigenous Knowledge
  8. Developing action from Indigenous Knowledge gained with community.

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:GA1GA2GA3GA4GA5GA6GA7
1Engage in ethical and reciprocal relationships with community through planning and implementing respectful action that will allow Indigenous Knowledge to flow from communityIntellectual rigourEthical practiceCultural competence
2Analyse and assess Indigenous Knowledge that is synthesised through relationship with communityIntellectual rigourKnowledge of a disciplineCultural competence
3Identify and evaluate ways that community-based Indigenous Knowledge may be utilized by Indigenous peoples and others to action positive social outcomes. Intellectual rigourEthical practiceCultural competence

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Engage in ethical and reciprocal relationships with community through planning and implementing respectful action that will allow Indigenous Knowledge to flow from community
    • GA1: Intellectual rigour
    • GA3: Ethical practice
    • GA7: Cultural competence
  2. Analyse and assess Indigenous Knowledge that is synthesised through relationship with community
    • GA1: Intellectual rigour
    • GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
    • GA7: Cultural competence
  3. Identify and evaluate ways that community-based Indigenous Knowledge may be utilized by Indigenous peoples and others to action positive social outcomes.
    • GA1: Intellectual rigour
    • GA3: Ethical practice
    • GA7: Cultural competence

Teaching and assessment

Notice

Intensive offerings may or may not be scheduled in every session. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

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Fee information

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