Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing

• can be transmitted nonverbally

• are rarely collaborative

• are best described as fragmented

• situates the learner as an individual

In relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' connection to Country,

• all land is equal and the same, and the location of the land does not influence learning and knowing

• land and what is found on it does not play a role in learning and knowing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture

• ecology refers to the stories told by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about the land on which they live

• learning and knowing concepts for each community is based on the specific location of the land

_______ is best described as making use of personal narratives in knowledge transmission and transformation.

• Connection to Country

• story sharing

• the dreaming

• movement to ensure sustainability of local resources

In Indigenous cultures, the most accurate overall view of learning is that it is embedded in

• Country

• folklore

• cognition

• secret business

Which of the following is not one of the ‘8 Ways’ example of Indigenous learning?

• rumination

• story sharing

• land links

• learning maps

In Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' ways of knowing, learning is described as being "embedded in relationships". Which of the following options accurately describes what this means?

• learning occurs through the kinship relationships between people that are defined by their relationships to Country

• people do not learn about Country but from, through and with Country

• people gain knowledge through learning how to listen to Country and how to describe the relationship that exist between different entities within Country

• all of the above

Which of the following options is true of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's ways of knowing?

• 'Ways of knowing' refers broadly to the shared aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' approaches to learning and passing on knowledge that are common across the many distinct nations and clans

• there is no single Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander approach to learning; each of the hundreds of distinct nations and clans has it own distinctive ways of knowing

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples express and communicate their knowledges through multiple formats, such as story, song, dance and art

• all of the above

In Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' approaches to learning, which of the following would not be an example of a "a multimodal system of knowledge patterned on Country"?

• entities such as geographical features, animals, and plants hold knowledge and communicate their knowledge through their distinctive sensory languages

• Songlines tell the stories of the journeys of Ancestors across Country and contain important knowledge that can be expressed through song, dance, art

• there are hundreds of distinct Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures spread across the geographical land masses that comprise Australia

• kinship systems are defined by people's connections to Country, and this determines who can hold and pass down particular forms of knowledge

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing highlight that the learner is a part of a multimodal system patterned on Country.

Which of the following best describes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander understandings of Country?

• Ownership of land

• An inter-dependent relationship between an individual or community and their ancestral and cultural connection to the environment and its features (including land, sea, sky, and animals).

• The nation of Australia

• The ability of the individual to use the land and benefit from the resources it contains.