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Unit of Study INDG7002 - Learning from Country (2024)

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Accessing Indigenous Knowledge is facilitated through building relationships between students and Country.  When people respectfully fulfil their responsibilities to care for Country, Country gives back land-based, contextual knowledge. Indigenous voices from around the globe will highlight priorities and directions to applying land-based knowledge into action in our local environments.

Unit content

Module 1:  Indigenous knowledge as a relationship with Country

Module 2:  Cultural diversity

Module 3:  Indigenous natural resource management and relational responsibilities

Module 4:  Indigenous intellectual property rights and Indigenous knowledge?

Module 5:  International Indigenous perspectives on land-based Indigenous Knowledge

Module 6:  Developing action from relationship with Country

 

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Engage in ethical and reciprocal relationships with Country through respectful action

Analyse and assess Indigenous Knowledge that is synthesised through relationship with Country

Identify and evaluate ways that land-based Indigenous Knowledge may be utilised by Indigenous peoples and others to action positive social outcomes.

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