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This is the first time a mandatory Indigenous studies subject has been offered by the Queensland University of Technology. In the past students were able to complete Indigenous studies electives which corresponded with their particular discipline majors through the university's Faculty of Arts. Each year, approximately 50-70 students - mainly from the education faculty - undertook the foundation subject, Indigenous Australian Culture Studies (HHB254, previously HUB700) and a number of these students continued on to pursue more in-depth studies through other subjects, e.g. Indigenous Australian Politics, Country Kin and Culture, Indigenous Australian Literature. Currently these subjects are under review through the Embedding Indigenous Perspectives project being undertaken by the faculties of QUT Carseldine and Creative Industries. It is envisaged that eventually these reconceptualised subjects will be made available to students as an education pathway. This subject therefore has a threefold purpose:
To provide students in the Bachelor of Education with foundational understandings in culture construction and how this impacts on them as social beings and therefore as teachers, with a particular focus on the historical and contemporary relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians;
To provide intellectual and personally purposeful springboards so that students can apply concepts and discoveries from this subject to a pathway should they elect to specialise, and
To provide a range of critical tools to enable students to apply concepts and discoveries to other subjects of the Bachelor of Education should they not elect to specialise.
EDB007 Development Team: Jean Phillips, Victor Hart, Jo
Lampert, Sue Whatman, Debra Palmer + significant
contributions made from other Oodgeroo Unit staff, and Greg
Winslett from SMILE, TALSS for the OLT Site.
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