Including an Aboriginal perspective gives students the opportunity to consider concepts from another angle as well as adding interesting content that kids enjoy.
One of the things that has become clear since I started Wingaru is that there is a lot of confusion about what exactly an Aboriginal Perspective is. Many people think of adding Aboriginal perspectives as introducing whole units of work. As you can imagine, this becomes very overwhelming when you consider how crowded the curriculum is. It is not surprising that so many teachers put Aboriginal Perspectives in the too hard basket. If we start looking at Aboriginal perspectives as simply looking at a topic from an Aboriginal point of view, the task becomes less daunting. Adding an activity exploring the Aboriginal point of view to an existing unit of work is an easy way to add more Aboriginal content to your classroom. The lessons on Wingaru Kids are an easy addition to existing units being taught in classrooms every day. Here are a few examples of how we can help you add more Aboriginal perspectives.
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Louise
4/12/2018 07:20:08 pm
I teach secondary school and I really like this approach. It provides an entry-point for teachers, students and parents. Aboriginal experiences and traditions become part of the 'everyday' as they always should have been. I often study novels with my classes and I get students to look at the unique paradigms and perspectives of different characters as lessons can be learnt by people's motivations, thoughts and actions. This should be the same for Aboriginal perspectives. Do you have strategies for students who want to immerse themselves in these areas or who find the Aboriginal perspective to be too different to their life to understand/relate and connect to?
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