Transcript Promoting Powerful Partnerships

Promoting Powerful
Partnerships
National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Education
Conference
10-12 September 2014 | St Edmund’s College | Canberra
An initiative of St Edmund’s College Canberra
with the support of Edmund Rice Education Australia
Keynote Speaker –
Dr Christine Fejo King
Christine Fejo-King is an Aboriginal woman
from the Northern Territory. Her mother is
a Warumungu woman from Tennant Creek
and her father was a Larrakia man from
Darwin. She now lives in the Australian
Capital Territory and is self-employed.
Workshops
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A series of five workshops will be
offered
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Those attending the conference will
select two workshops – one in each of
the two time slots (11-11:30am and
11:30am-12:10pm)
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Two workshops are designated for
teachers only – Workshop 3 and
Workshop 5.
10:50am
Session 1 - Workshops
Thur 11/9/14
11-11:30am
Workshop 1
ADF –
Opportunities
and Pathways
(students/
teachers)
11:30am12:10pm
Workshop 2
Workshop
3
CIT AIATSIS Flexible Training for 8 ways – Learning
Work
Through Culture
(students/
(teachers)
teachers)
Workshop 4
ACU Indigenous
Students Panel
(students/
teachers)
Workshop 5
Paul Lucas Sustainable
Futures – On Holy
Ground
(teachers)
Session 2 - Workshops
Workshop 2
Workshop 5
CIT Paul Lucas Flexible Training Sustainable Futures
for Work
– On Holy Ground
(students/
(teachers)
teachers)
Workshop 4
ACU Indigenous
Students Panel
(students/
teachers)
Workshop 1
Workshop 3
ADF –
AIATSIS Opportunities and 8 ways – Learning
Pathways
Through Culture
(students/
(teachers)
teachers)
Workshop 1
Australian Defence Force –
Opportunities and Pathways
WO Ken Nelliman
(students/ teachers)
The ADF has a range of Indigenous programs intended to support service members
and communities and to acknowledge significant Indigenous cultural events. This
workshop will outline the growing network that exists within the ADF to provide
advice on the initiatives for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
Discussion of the Indigenous Recruitment Strategy as well as advice and support
for career pathways will be the focus of this workshop.
Workshop 2
Canberra Institute of Technology Flexible Training for Work
Caroline Hughes
(students/ teachers)
The CIT Yurauna Centre is CIT's dedicated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander support
centre. Director Caroline Hughes and staff will outline the opportunities for further
study for Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander students at the Yurauna Centre. The CIT
Yurauna Centre can help students grow in knowledge, abilities and confidence, and
help them along the path to your career of choice through skills training, advice and
cultural support. This workshop offers students an insight into courses available to
support flexible training for work as well as support services.
Workshop 3
AIATSIS 8 ways – Learning Through Culture
(teachers)
8 Ways focuses on how to embed basic Aboriginal and Torres Strait perspectives
across your classroom in just one week. Information will include discussion of the
Cultural Interface Theory (Dr Martin Nakata) which examines ways that knowledge
can increase the overlap across cultures and practical ways to embed the protocols
for engaging with Aboriginal knowledge in your classroom.
Workshop 4
ACU Indigenous Students Panel
(students/ teachers)
Particularly aimed at students, this workshop will be conducted in a Q&A format by a
panel of 2nd and 3rd year Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from Australian
Catholic University. They will share their experiences of success and challenges in
negotiating Year 11 and 12 studies as well as tertiary education and respond to
questions students may have about their journeys.
Workshop 5
Paul Lucas –
Sustainable Futures – On Holy Ground
(teachers)
Former principal of Holy Spirit School in Townsville, Paul Lucas, has committed his life
to pursuing and promoting ecological sustainability through environmental
education. His school environs are a tribute to his passion for integrating our care for
the environment in everything we do. This workshop will provide practical ways to
incorporate a spiritual, intellectual, emotional, physical and social experience for all
that will assist in the development of a life-long caring stewardship of the
Environment.
Register at:
www.steddi.es/powerfulpartnerships