Noongar culture and community
ACE works in partnership with respected Aboriginal Elders and Noongar people. Find out more >>
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Service learning
Service learning is an educational experience in which students work collaboratively with a community, using their discipline or course knowledge to meet identified community needs. Find out more >>
Service learning for students: Find out more >>
Service learning for teachers: Find out more >>
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Action research
The Aboriginal Community Engagement project is guided and informed by action research. As the name suggests, action research is about creating change through action.
Download Ernie Stringer’s overview on Action research and working with aboriginal people here >>
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Critical reflexivity
ACE employs a critically reflexive approach to teaching and research that combines service learning, action research and sense of place theory. Find out more >>
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Sense of place
Developing an understanding of Indigenous people’s profound connection to place is crucial for story-tellers who wish to express the underlying character of the places about which they write. Find out more >>
First people’s service learning
Griffith University – Curtin University – University of Western Sydney
Building on three years of work in Central and Western Australia, this Office for Learning and Teaching funded project took students from three different universities to work with Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities on service learning projects in the arts. These projects involved students working alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and Elders on community-led projects such as recording and writing albums, journalistic writing, documenting cultural activities, managing community festivals, and running school programs.
Service learning framework: Download here >>
Western Independent is the website produced by journalism students at Curtin University.
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Aside from publishing photo, text, video and audio journalism, Western Independent:
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* informs you of the university’s journalism courses;
* profiles Curtin Journalism’s teaching staff; and
* highlights current work experience and job opportunities.
View website here >>
The Greater Perspective is a booklet for filmmakers, television programmers, and other media practitioners in the production of programs about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues, or programs made on lands of indigenous people.
It is also intended to act as a guide for production crews and other media practitioners when they enter Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities or travel within indigenous lands as part of their project.
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