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Building
awareness: Extending your knowledge
The best source of information about Indigenous peoples is
Indigenous people.
 At
the end of the day, it wasn't so much the strategy, what teachers
did, that made the difference — it was what they believed.
And the way to change what non-Indigenous people believed
was get them to engage in conversations with Aboriginal people.
There
is no substitute for good personal relationships.
Cross-cultural
training
But if you want to get started somewhere many educational
and training institutions have found more formal cross-cultural
training helpful. Your local Indigenous Education or training
consultant will be able to provide leads for this. There are
also print resources/kits which have proved useful.
Some
references…
Valuable
contemporary documents
In
addition there are a number of valuable documents with which
you should be familiar. Clicking here will take you to a short
selection.
What
are the documents?…
Resources
It can no longer be said that there
are inadequate resources to help educate Indigenous students.
They abound.
References to some, relevant in context
or the subject of case studies, have been included at various
points in this material.
Local consultants may be able to provide
ideas about the sorts of resources you require. They can also
help you get in touch with local resource centres for Indigenous
education.
Indigenous
education resource centres...
Otherwise, NATSIEW is the National
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Website. It
is a 'directory' site and provides access to a very wide of
resources and information.
Visit
the NATSIEW site…
Evaluating
resources
The
quality of resources in this area always needs to be evaluated
and NATSIEW provides advice on how to do so.
Read
NATSIEW's advice…
Government programs
The Australian Government has a variety of programs available
which offer practical support to Indigenous students.
For
a listing and brief descriptions…
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