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Unit description
This Unit provides students with an understanding of the creative process of learning, co-production and respectful design, based on Indigenous Australian knowledge and approaches to wicked problems. Participating with Australian Indigenous elders, academics and communities, this unit will enhance the student’s ability to think beyond traditional Western engineering design, development and implementation.
Unit content
Principles and protocols
Australian Indigenous ways of knowing
Cultural adaptation and re-design
Respectful design, co-design and futuring
Ethic of care in redirection and redirective practice with community.
Australian community-based cross-cultural case studies.
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.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Explain Indigenous approaches to being and ways for understanding in the world, with a focus on Aboriginal peoples in Australian contexts |
| 2 | Examine the major Indigenous Knowledge theories including an examination of the contemporary and future-building potential of Indigenous Knowledge |
| 3 | Demonstrate an understanding that Indigenous Knowledge is a relational philosophy that underpins all human culture and provides potential for adaptation |
| 4 | Co-design and implement models for effectively ensuring respectful change, ethical sharing and care in Indigenous re-directive practice. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- Explain Indigenous approaches to being and ways for understanding in the world, with a focus on Aboriginal peoples in Australian contexts
- Examine the major Indigenous Knowledge theories including an examination of the contemporary and future-building potential of Indigenous Knowledge
- Demonstrate an understanding that Indigenous Knowledge is a relational philosophy that underpins all human culture and provides potential for adaptation
- Co-design and implement models for effectively ensuring respectful change, ethical sharing and care in Indigenous re-directive practice.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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