Indigenising Mainstream - A Lesson of Learning, an Experience in Values and Broadening Perspectives for Training TeachersMaj-Lis O'Rourke and Barry Malezer, Gumurrii Centre, Mt Gravatt Campus, Griffith University, Brisbane. AbstractUniversity students have the option to (actively) participate or to be (passively) present in tutorials at Tertiary Institutions. These are the foundations for the transfer of teaching to learning in Australian Universities. But, how well do tutorials service the needs of tertiary students? Can this participation be enhanced through a culturally-influenced environment? This paper will analyse an educational practice in tertiary tutorials, motivating and broadening student activity through an indigenous methodology. What are the elements that promote quality practice within teaching and learning for trainee teachers and their learning perspectives on issues that are not dominant mainstream values? Both the conscious and unconscious use of indigenous teaching tools and values in the tutorial setting widen the potential for teaching and learning. Students from predominantly mainstream backgrounds get to experience a cultural way of learning through caring and sharing, and in this case - Murri humour. Through our Indigenised practice, it is believed that students are stimulated, included equally and challenged to a degree of enhanced satisfaction. The final product and the ultimate desire (sometimes an eluding factor) is the enhanced learning of the student. |
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