Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
(Aboriginal Artwork, 2013)
(John, 2007)
The
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) are
responsible for Australia’s curriculum from kindergarten to grade 12. ACARA
includes in the Australian curriculum, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
histories and cultures which is a conceptual framework based on Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander People’s unique sense of identity (ACARA, 2012). This identity
is interconnected with the aspects of country/place, people and culture. Geographers
have taken up issues in new public statements such as “place matters” or the
“power of place and space” as well as new ideas about spatiality,
territoriality, and general sense that space and place, nature and culture are
equally constitutive (Sack, 1993). With space and place recognised in geography in Australia's curriculum allows students to indentify Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander’s cultures and histories. As a result of this, geography provides an
opportunity to include important aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander knowledge (ACARA, 2012). By doing this, geography also allows students find out how
different Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities handle their
biophysical environmental and students can learn from their experience of their
thousands of years spent in this country. ACARA provides students the opportunity
to learn and deepen their knowledge based on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander priority by engaging with one of the world’s oldest living cultures (ACARA, 2012). This knowledge will encourage students to enrich their ability to
participate in ongoing development in Australia. References
Aboriginal
Artwork [Image]. (2013). Retrieved from
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