School Of EducationIndigenous Landscapes and SustainabilityWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 102133.2
Discipline: TEACHER EDUCATION: PRIMARY
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
101493 - Human Society and Its Environment 2
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Students must be enrolled in 1717 Bachelor of Education (Primary) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education.
About this Unit
The unit is only offered to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Education (Primary) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education program. The unit explores how Aboriginal ways of knowing country, and how tacit Aboriginal cultural knowledge embeds many of the principles of sustainability. Country defines First Nations people’s identity and spirituality globally. The unit provides opportunity of the exploration and development of self and identity in terms of traditional stewardship practices that underpin the practice and principles related to the maintenance of place/country, language, spirituality. The unit builds awareness and understanding about Aboriginal ‘ways of knowing’ and ‘caring’ for Country. The unit provides community engagement opportunities for the exploration of oral traditions, language, writings about nurturing, visiting, talking, singing and feeling ‘sorry’ for Country. It will design a framework whereby as future educators they will be able to use an ecological approach to their teaching of significant global issues such as: sustainable land and energy use, the impact of human society on land and land management, global warming, the concept of self-sustaining systems and valuing sustainable patterns of living. The unit requires students to undertake visits to Environmental Field Studies Centres, the WSU Sustainability Unit and local cultural learning centres to work with Elders.
Courses| 1717.1 | Bachelor of Education (Primary) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education | CONTINUING |
| 1717.3 | Bachelor of Education (Primary) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education | CURRENT |
| 1861.1 | Bachelor of Educational Studies (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education) (exit only) | CONTINUING |
| 1861.2 | Bachelor of Educational Studies (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education) (exit only) | CURRENT |