Reference no: EM133921899
Assignment:
Critical reflection:
Please provide an Acknowledgement of Country and a brief Warning of possible names of deceased prior to and sitting separately from the commencement of your Critical Reflection.
1. Connection to Country, Indigenous Protocols
Critically analyse your own cultural positioning, heritage, prior knowledge, understandings, and attitudes prior to commencing the unit against the unit materials, and what this new learning will mean for you as a future teacher and how it will influence your future classroom practice.
In your reflection, consider your own cultural imperatives, implicit biases, life experiences and positioning within society. In responding to the unit material, what aspect of your opinions, attitudes or beliefs may have changed, if anything, in relation to your selected topics? Is some of the material new, confronting or well known to you? Explain why this is so. Articulate what barriers you may have with regards to teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and perspectives in respect to your chosen topics as well as how the unit material has helped you develop new understandings in a more holistic manner, and what steps you will need to take towards developing cultural competency to inform your future teaching - how/why it is relevant to your future teaching.
The assessment is NOT a summary of facts and information of the unit materials. The assessment is designed so that as you reflect on the unit learnings, you develop your self-awareness while assessing your own cultural beliefs, as well as gain an understanding of Australia's Indigenous populations and the historical and contemporary impacts on Indigenous cultures.
Structure:
This reflection should be written in first person.
The reflection is to be written as an academic essay so should have a brief Introduction, body paragraphs and a Conclusion. (Do NOT use headings)
A minimum of 5 scholarly references is required.
Note: Please provide in-text citations in every paragraph.