Indigenous Cultural Awareness - online
Course description
PLEASE NOTE: This is an Online Course available all the time.
In partnership with Malu Learning, Flinders is pleased to offer Indigenous Cultural Awareness online training to all staff.
Why cultural training?
Flinders University is committed to engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, staff and community, the incorporation of Indigenous Knowledges and perspectives within the University, Indigenous employment, and research through its core value of Integrity.
For this commitment and principles to be fostered, understanding and knowledge of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' relationship to Country and sovereignty requires foundational knowledge of colonialism within Australia, historically and within the contemporary.
This also encourage critical thinking and reflection of one's own understanding of the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and communities and the social, cultural, political context and race relations within Australia and what it means to collectively strive toward reconciliation.
Accessing the training
Please contact the professional.development@flinders.edu.au team
Type of course
Online course
Who should attend
Required for all fixed term and continuing staff - casual staff should check with their manager.
What you will learn
An appreciation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples' long-help philosophies, connection to Country and ways of knowing, being and doing from time in-memorial and in the contemporary.
An understanding of cultural protocols and significance of Welcome to Country and Acknowledgment of Country.
Knowledge of the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
A foundational understanding of Australia’s Indigenous history, settler colonialism, social and cultural policy and attempted dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.
Knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ self-determination, resistance and activism.
Celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ contributions to Australian society.