IA2015 - Indigenous Australian Worldviews 2: Contested Knowledges

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:

Available to Bachelor of Indigenous Studies students and other undergraduate students.

This subject is an invitation to critically engage in the discussion of divergent worldviews in relation to 'Indigenous Knowledges' and the way western academic frameworks produce and legitimate knowledge. The subject draws attention to some of the contradictions and contestations in affirming the place of Indigenous knowledges in western 'traditions'. Through on-line learning, including the use of discussion board this subject interrogates the notions of tradition, authenticity and assertion of Indigenous identity as crucial to the educational and political project of affirming Indigenous knowledges. It further explores the issue of cultural ownership and Indigenous views of landscape and wilderness. It is therefore essential that students have access to the World Wide Web to complete this subject. Those students who do not have access to email must contact the subject co-ordinator.

Learning Outcomes

• interrogate the ways in which western academic traditions produce and legitimate knowledge;
• recognise that different knowledges can co-exist, that different knowledges can compliment each other and also that knowledges can be in conflict at the same time;
• critically examine the emerging call for academic knowledge to speak to the diversity of histories, events, experiences and ideas that have shaped Indigenous growth and development in Australian society.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies.

Prerequisites:

IA1015 desirable

Availabilities
, , Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Face to face teaching (One day seminar attendance - consult School for details)
Coord/Lect:	Sharon Moore.
Assessment:	(20%); (40%); (40%).
, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Coord/Lect:	Sharon Moore.
Method of Delivery:	WWW - LearnJCU
Assessment:	(40%); (60%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.