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University of Melbourne

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Sharing of Indigenous Knowledges - micro-credential

  • Non-Award

Decolonise your thinking to respectfully engage with Indigenous knowledges and creative practices. This micro-credential provides skills and knowledge to engage in respectful and reciprocal knowledge sharing, focusing on Indigenous approaches to learning and creating.

Key details

Degree Type
Non-Award
Duration
6 - 6 weeks full-time
Study Mode
Online

About this course

Sharing of Indigenous Knowledges

Decolonise your thinking to respectfully engage with Indigenous knowledges and creative practices.

Respectfully engaging with Indigenous knowledges and creative arts practices requires culturally safe and aware ways of thinking about knowledge, responsibilities and ownerships.

This micro-credential centres Indigenous approaches to learning and creating to provide the skills and knowledge to decolonise your thinking and engage in respectful and reciprocal knowledge sharing.

It's valuable for anyone seeking to deepen their cultural understanding of Indigenous creative practices and connection to place, and to responsibly and respectfully engage with Indigenous knowledges.

Study locations

Online

What you will learn

What you will learn

Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.

Respectfully engaging with Indigenous knowledges and creative arts practices requires culturally safe and aware ways of thinking about knowledge, responsibilities and ownerships.

This micro-credential centres Indigenous approaches to learning and creating to provide the skills and knowledge to decolonise your thinking and engage in respectful and reciprocal knowledge sharing.

It's valuable for anyone seeking to deepen their cultural understanding of Indigenous creative practices and connection to place, and to responsibly and respectfully engage with Indigenous knowledges.

Gain a historical overview of Indigenous creative practice

This micro-credential presents a historical overview of Indigenous creative practice in Australia, including contemporary cultural and creative practices. You'll learn to describe and reflect on the context of place in Indigenous cultures and creative practices, across this diverse history.

Decolonise your thinking and responsibly share Indigenous knowledges

Learn culturally aware and safe approaches to decolonising thinking about knowledge, 'know how', responsibilities, ownerships and interconnected relationships with Indigenous communities. You'll explore reciprocal and responsible knowledge sharing, the diverse approaches within a fluid field of knowledge, and appropriation. You'll also be introduced to the concept of 'know how' for finding archival information for, and with, Indigenous communities.

Engage with Indigenous technologies and creative practices

Drawing on your new understanding of reciprocal and responsible knowledge sharing, you'll engage in the practice of making a fishing net. This hands-on activity will allow you to practice following cultural protocols and respectfully using materials, techniques and traditional Indigenous technologies from Country.

Career pathways

This course is valuable for anyone seeking to deepen their cultural awareness and engage respectfully with Indigenous cultures and communities. It's particularly beneficial for teachers and education professionals, arts workers and practitioners, community and cultural development workers, and corporate, business or government leaders.

Course structure

Course details

This course runs over six weeks.

Your total time commitment is 42 hours, which includes approximately:

  • 9 hours guided learning
  • 20 hours independent study
  • 13 hours assessment activities.
Assessment:
  • Making practice: a digital portfolio in two parts that presents both a creative outcome and reflective text and video presentations. The making practice uses fishing net as the primary material (100%).