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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Analyse essential features of Aboriginal families and cultures
   • Access and review information about Australian Aboriginal history up to the present time
   • Research concepts such as Dreaming, connection to Country and other Aboriginal beliefs
   • Identify traditional and contemporary social structures of Aboriginal families and societies
   • Research elements of Aboriginal societies and use to inform interactions with Aboriginal people
2. Review changes to Aboriginal societies since European settlement
   • Research and document colonisation and the impacts on Aboriginal peoples
   • Identify racist behaviours and the impact that these have had on Aboriginal peoples
   • Analyse personal responses to information about the positive and negative effects of colonisation
   • Conduct and analyse research into the impacts of colonisation, settlement and government policies on Aboriginalcultural practices
3. Identify government efforts to address continuing effects of colonisation
   • Investigate and analyse various policies implemented by governments in Aboriginal affairs
   • Identify the processes involved in government consultation with Aboriginal people, Communities and organisations
   • Evaluate effects of government policies in Aboriginal affairs and their implementation processes on Communities
   • Investigate and evaluate effectiveness of a chosen government policy through Community consultation
   • Develop strategies for addressing any public perception of 'special treatment' for Indigenous peoples in relation to the chosen policy in consultation with Community
4. Apply understanding of Aboriginal cultural protocols and identity to daily work routines
   • Identify features of Aboriginal identity and personal cultural maintenance
   • Analyse and use how these features are expressed in daily work life to inform workplace relationships and interactions
   • Identify and analyse the obligations of cultural maintenance in relation to a work issue
   • Apply allowances for absences due to family/seasonal cultural practices and bereavement
   • Work through and deal with workplace conflicts in culturally appropriate ways
   • Develop possible strategies for cultural maintenance in work and the workplace
5. Plan culturally appropriate work practices
   • Develop a vision and workplace goals for own work
   • Identify and discuss common culturally inappropriate work practices
   • Develop strategies to change these practices collaboratively
   • Develop an implementation and evaluation plan for the strategies
   • Propose ways in which Aboriginal practitioners can effect change to create greater cultural awareness in the workplace

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.

The candidate must provide evidence that they can:

plan for culturally appropriate work practices to enable Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal practitioners to be successful in their chosen field of work or vocation

demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the essential features of Aboriginal families and culture applied in workplace relationships

apply practices in the workplace aimed at sustaining Aboriginal cultural maintenance

plan culturally appropriate work practices

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

practices in the workplace aimed at sustaining Aboriginal cultural maintenance

culturally appropriate work practices

history and impacts of European invasion and subsequent government policies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

the concept of cultural maintenance

Aboriginal cultural protocols and identify as they apply to the workplace

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