Victorian high school students will be taught about the Indigenous “heroes” who fought, against long odds, to keep their language and culture alive.
The Aboriginal Change Makers history resource is designed for civics and citizenship students in year 7 to 10.The online resource was produced by Worawa Aboriginal College and the Victorian parliament.When Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung man Tiriki Onus was a schoolboy, he recalls a year 10 teacher telling the class “that the Aboriginal people of south-east Australia were extinct”.
It details subjects including life on Aboriginal missions, the policy of removing children from their families at age 15 to work as household or farm labour, and 20th century campaigns for recognition and self-determination., in partnership with the Victorian parliament, which has also committed to provide professional resources for teachers to make best use of the material in their classrooms.
“It is our hope that non-Aboriginal students will begin to access the actual history of the past and a new understanding of what has created their own perspective, so they can look at the past with clarity, and the future with honesty,” she said.The launch follows the release of a new Australian curriculum this year that also elevates the teaching of Aboriginal history, though it was amended to include more of Australia’s Western history at the insistence of the former Coalition government.
Victorian parliament speaker Colin Brooks committed to a development program for teachers, run with staff at Worawa Aboriginal College, so they too could teach the resource with confidence.
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