Diversity- group assignment – Assignment 2- Radia Hage

Diversity:
 Social justice issue: Disadvantages that indigenous students face due to the
intersection of their identity.
 The aim of the board game is to raise awareness about the social justice issue
to have students critically think about the social justice issue in order for them
to become global citizens and agents of the game.
 Board game
Four players, two sets of cards (questions based on everything we’ve done in
the unit, and directly linked cards from the text)
If you land on a question card it will be multiple choice, if you get the answer
correctly you will win a gold coin, which represents cultural capital. If you
land on the awareness card, you will win a silver coin, which allows players to
critically think and discuss.
 Game steps:
1. Roll the dice (all start at equality steps section)
2. Move the figure to the result of the dice
3. If you land on a question card it will be multiple choice, if you get the
answer correctly you will win a gold coin, which represents cultural
capital. If you land on the awareness card, you will win a silver coin,
which allows players to critically think and discuss.
4. The first person to reach equity wins and receives 10 bonus points.

Multiple-choice questions:

Australia continues to be subjected to colonial domination in which there are divisions

and unequal power relations between indigenous people and the dominant white
Anglo Australian population.

Following from this are indigenous students affected in education

a) Due to the surrounding discourses of colonism
b) Due to their race and ethnicity
c) Or due to limited access to resources

How are Indigenous students who live in rural areas disadvantaged due to their race
and social economic class in education?
a) Their difference to the mainstream society
b) Or their family situation and barriers
c) Their low social and economic status, which leads to their disengagement in
schooling

How does an understanding of Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital affect the

indigenous population?
a) Due to indigenous communities being disadvantaged from their value of
knowledge
b) Face inequality from the power dynamics that function in society
 c) Or are disadvantaged from their different values of knowledge, language,
skills and family backgrounds compared to the mainstream population

Racism is destructive; it disempowers people by devaluing their identity. It is a social

construct and has its roots in the belief that some people are better than or superior to
others because they belong to a certain race.
What type of behaviours might be considered racist towards Indigenous students in
schools?
a) Low expectations and negative stereotypes
b) Biased curriculum materials
c) Indirect discrimination such as teachers treating all students the same
d) All of the above