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EDPL6005: Aboriginal Education: Policy and Practice
2024 unit information
Students will analyse historical and contemporary national and local Aboriginal education policies and interrogate implicit representations of what is considered to be the 'problem' in Aboriginal education. They will apply this in ways that influence positive change in their workplace including improved Aboriginal student outcomes.
Unit details and rules
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Education
| Code | EDPL6005 |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Critically interrogate education policy to initiate and engage in professional dialogue with colleagues directed at improving professional knowledge and practice, and the educational outcomes of Aboriginal students.
- LO2. Critically analyse key education policies in Aboriginal and international Indigenous contexts.
- LO3. Collaborate with Aboriginal communities to lead colleagues in examining and auditing education policy in their workplace in order to effect whole school change.
- LO4. Lead and support colleagues in analysing and interrogating school education policies to inform culturally responsive implementation including student well-being.
- LO5. Prioritise local Aboriginal ways of knowing, doing and being when leading colleagues in implementing culturally responsive enactments of policy.
- LO6. Lead and support colleagues in developing personal and professional reflexivity in order to deliver and implement culturally responsive and ethical policies for whole school change.
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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