List 10 things that you consider strengths when you reflect your personal life, your family, your community or social environment.
List 10 things that you consider strengths when you reflect on Aboriginal people’s lives, family, community or social environment.
Write a short 150 word summary/reflection:
a) Consider your assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs
b) Were the things you listed different; why/ why not?
c) Did you find it difficult to list any strengths; why/why not?
Forum Activity W2 (150 words)
Having completed the readings (see attached forum activity 2 reading), reflect on what you have read.
a) How has your understanding of the way in which Aboriginal people see the world changed?
b) What implications might this have in your professional, personal or educational practice?
https://www.adelaide.edu.au/acad/research-strengths/aboriginal-heritage-project
Forum Activity W3 (150 words)
Having had a brief look at the Aboriginal World View (Week 2) and the history of race relations in Australia (Week 3), what do you make of the current debate around the constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians or the signing of treaty?
Read the following articles on the Australian Human Rights Commission website:
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/news/stories/have-courage-we-can-t-wait-another-50-years-be-heard-commissioner-oscar-delivers
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/news/stories/uluru-statement-calls-first-nations-voice-constitution
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/news/stories/australia-s-human-rights-bodies-tell-political-leaders-uluru-statement-cannot-be
Forum Activity W4 (150 words)
Why do you think Kevin Rudd’s Apology is seen as a significant gesture?
Forum Activity W5 (150 words)
“Race may be a social construct, but that doesn’t change the fact that racism is real, that people are different colours, or that the consequences of this history have not been redressed or removed from the society we still live in.” (NITV, 2017)
What does it mean to be in the social group or category (class, race, gender) which is advantaged or privileged in some way? What do we do with those privileges?
