Elements and Performance Criteria
- Summarise essential features of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and cultures
- Contemporary Australian indigenous history since 1788 is summarised.
- The concepts and beliefs of the dreaming and before time are explained.
- The link between economic organisation and ecology in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies is outlined.
- The traditional social structures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies are summarised.
- The elements of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander societies (i.e. religion, land, ecology, social structure, political structure) are combined to create a whole.
- Review impacts of changes on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies since European invasion
- World colonisation and the impacts on indigenous peoples are outlined.
- Racist behaviours and the impact that these have had on indigenous Australian peoples and communities is outlined.
- The role the media and other agencies play in influencing public opinion is outlined.
- The changes that have happened to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies since 1778 in relation to world colonisation and racial theories are broadly outlined.
- The responses to the changes described above are broadly outlined.
- Impacts that these changes have had on families and communities are summarised.
- Personal responses to information about the positive and negative effects of colonisation are analysed.
- The significance of these impacts on cultural practices is outlined.
- Analyse effects of examining isolated cultural elements of a holistic culture as individual doctrines
- Areas of overlap within sections of Aboriginal cultural life are explained, and areas of overlap within sections of Torres Strait Islander cultural life are explained.
- The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander worldview, including the dimension of holistic notion of culture is explained.
- The effects of compartmentalising a holistic culture are explained.
- Relate the implications for vocational area of government efforts to address continuing effects of colonisation
- Various policies implemented by governments to address the areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs are investigated and explained.
- The processes of bureaucracies that implement these policies are identified.
- The effects of these policies and their implementation processes on communities are evaluated.
- The effectiveness of a chosen policy is investigated through community consultation.
- Strategies for redressing the perception of 'special treatment' for indigenous peoples in relation to the chosen policy are outlined.
- Outline the concept of cultural maintenance
- Features of identity and personal cultural maintenance are listed.
- How these features are applied in daily work life is outlined.
- The broader issues of cultural maintenance and cultural theft are outlined.
- Cultural maintenance in relation to a work issue is defined.
- Allowances for absences due to family/seasonal cultural practices and bereavement are acknowledged.
- Conflicts and opportunities for cultural maintenance in work are outlined.
- Possible strategies for cultural maintenance in work are developed.
- Characterise self as an effective indigenous practitioner in the environment field
- Possible sources of conflicts and opportunities in work roles are described.
- Strategies for addressing these are developed.
- A vision/set of aspirations for own work is developed.
- Personal action plan and strategies for fulfilling this vision are outlined.
- Appropriate complaint mechanisms are put in place.
- Plan culturally appropriate work practices
- Common culturally inappropriate work practices are detailed.
- Ways in which indigenous practitioners can effect change to create greater cultural awareness are proposed.
- The significance of not addressing the practice is discussed.
- Strategies to change the practice are described.
- An implementation and evaluation plan for the strategies is developed.