Introduction to Koorie Culture

Workshop

Acknowledgement

ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA

Language Map

Workshop ActivityCreation stories

1. Read your creation story.

2. Find where the country is on the language map.

3. How could you use this story in your teaching discipline?

4. Do you have any suggestions that you could make for other disciplines?

5. What protocols would you need to employ?

The Australian Curriculumhttp://nypl2012.com/

Indigenous perspectives

in the

Australian Curriculum

Learning area

Strand Sub strand Descriptor Elaborator for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cross curriculum priority

English

Language Language variation and change

Understand the way language evolves to reflect a changing world, particularly in response to the use of new technology for presenting texts and communicating (ACELA1528)

KHT: Tuckerbag’ teacher’s resource list Introduction to Koorie Culture Excursion and teachers resource kitWalkin Birrarung Excursion and teachers resource kit

Bunjilaka, Melbourne Museum: http://museumvictoria.com.au/discoverycentre/infosheets/federation-tapestry/11174/

Royal Botanic Gardens: See Teacher’s kit for digital and printed texts relating to Aboriginal culture. Research Kulin words. How have they been incorporated into Australian English? How has language changed? Students learn Kulin words.

NGV: Explore the artwork of Vernon Ah Kee If I was white 2002, self-portrait (possesses some of the attributes of an artist) 2007 and Ideas of Barak, 2011, discover how he brings to our attention past and present divisions between black and white society.http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/col/work/73371 http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/col/work/86126 http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/ngv-collection/william-barak/vernon-ah-kee

ACMI: Generator http://generator.acmi.net.au/sites/default/files/ACMI_DreaminginColour.pdf

SLV: Look at differences in language from historical sources concerning early Melbourne (e.g. work by James Bonwick http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/vicpamphlets/inter/122638.shtml and the ergo website http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore-history/colonial-melbourne/everyday-life)