First Nations in Education: The Yorta Yorta Country

PART B - Acknowledgement of Country (2 minutes/200 words/10%)

Building on your learnings, you are to produce a written or multimodal text applying your knowledge of, understanding of and respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, histories, cultures and languages and understanding of the impact of culture, cultural identity and linguistic background of Indigenous peoples to produce an Acknowledgement of Country.

To complete this task you will be required to:

• Produce an Acknowledgement of Country (either written or as a multimodal text).

· Link your Acknowledgement of Country to your personal context (eg. your relationship to Country - where you live, work, and so forth and/or information about the local Traditional Owners, etc).

PART C- Strengths-based task (500 words/30%)

You are asked to select a poem, artwork, story, etc written or created by an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person and/or an artefact or object from the Cultural Collections provided. You are to select a resource from a range of resources, including ICT, and describe how the resource will engage Indigenous students in their learning.

Cultural Collections artefacts:

PLEASE NOTE: Each of the Collections are identifiable via the front matter of the PPT slides. A citation identifying the artefact and so forth is necessary within the assessment. · Art of Healing Jacqueline Healy Educatiion 2022-1.ppt

• Donald Thomson Collection OBL Jan 2022-1.pptx

• Grainger Museum objects for First Nations in Education 2022 (003)-1.pptx

• The Leonhard Adam Collection objects for First Nations in Education Jan2022-1.pptx

To complete this task you are required to:

• Describe key themes and ideas shared or describe the artefact selected;

• Respond to the following question: How might the chosen text be used in the classroom/as part of a lesson? (approx. 350 words) · Link the resource to Indigenous-specific policies and processes;

• Reflect on how the resource demonstrates your knowledge of, understanding of and respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures, and languages; and,

• Link your reflection to two First Nations authored readings which can be accessed through the #Citeablakfella Zotero database.