What is it about?
This article outlines a framework for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in an arts-based service learning context. The framework is designed to support respectful and mutually beneficial learning partnerships through three, interconnected Ways of Knowing, Ways of Being, and Ways of Doing.
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Why is it important?
The framework takes inspiration from an Aboriginal worldview and it informs how these insights can be embodied in practice. We hope that the framework will be a useful starting point for those interested in developing new partnerships with First Peoples and those committed to developing intercultural ways of learning and engaging in global service learning initiatives. We hope it will also provide a valuable reflective prompt for those in the midst of these programmes and, most of all, a beneficial reference point for evaluating these programmes in the future.
Perspectives
The article offers insights on global service learning and service learning with First Peoples, drawing on examples from three arts-based service learning programmes with Aboriginal communities over eight years. Community partners subtly control the depths to which participants travelled through and out of identified ways of learning. They also guided what people came to know, how they related to others, and where and when this was done. As faculty members, we need to be deeply present throughout this, but we also need to make a concerted effort to let it play out without our interference. We believe this community-led learning, coupled with systematic reflective practice through fieldwork diaries, focus group interviews and digital story making, significantly deepens our students’ intercultural learning experiences
Professor Dawn Bennett
Curtin University
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This page is a summary of: Service learning with First Peoples: a framework to support respectful and reciprocal learning, Intercultural Education, January 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14675986.2018.1528526.
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