Reflection week 3 EDF2031

By Stephanie Lindsay
During my class EDF 2030 indigenous perspective on teaching
and learning, we talked about identity. I was surprised to learn
that some aboriginal children had such a low sense of worth in
that they thought themselves beneath others because of where
they lived or because of the colour of their skin. I was
interested in looking into some the reasons for this loss of
worth. After some research on the Internet Ive found that this
loss of worth was due in some parts to the way that the
aboriginal people have been treated by others over the years.
I believe that it should be a factor in all educational programs
that children are taught that everyone is different yet none of
these differences make anyone better than anyone else and
that all people are equal. My reasons for this are how can we
teach a child and have expectations of them when they
themselves do believe that they can achieve anything because
of their differences.
A way of helping children learn that differences do not make us
less than equal is by showing the differences between all
children, a way of doing this in a class setting is to do activities
that revolve around identity such as family trees, self-portraits
and having parents days.
Further expanding on this idea is the thought of having
aboriginal people who have achieved come in and talk to the
children.

References
Peter Anderson. (2014). EDF2031 week 3 PDF.
SNAICC. 2013. Pride. Retrieved April 8th 2014. From
http://www.supportingcarers.snaicc.org.au/3.2.html

Dr. Pamela Rose Toulouse. Supporting Aboriginal Student

Success: Self-Esteem and Identity, A Living Teachings PDF.
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