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Reflection
Aboriginal and Culturally Responsive Pedagogies was a very eye-opening unit.
Prior to taking this unit I knew almost nothing of Aboriginal histories and
cultures. This was rather problematic as it is necessary to teach these things in
every subject across the curriculum. Since then I have gained some
understanding of their history and culture and to effectively and respectfully
integrate that into my teaching practice.
One of the biggest problems I discovered during the completion of my
assignments was the rather poor effort that has been put into the
Mathematics curriculum regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
perspectives. Lowe and Yunkaporta (2013) found that mathematics was the
most restricted of all the subjects with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
perspectives being tagged twice in the entire secondary curriculum. I read
through the curriculum myself, and found it appalling that not only were there
few tags, but there was a very poor effort to link this to Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander perspectives. While I do agree that it can be hard to link pure
maths in Stage 6 mathematics to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
perspectives, there is an abundance of ideas that can be integrated into Stage
4 and 5 lessons that I found from other states and teaching resources online.
Lowe, K., & Yunkaporta, T. (2013). The inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
1-14.