Workshop themes

• Learning from and interacting with Indigenous community
• The practice of cross cultural engagement
• Indigenous NCRM visions
• Change at personal, institutional and professional level – rethinking the practice, institutions and knowledges of NCRM

Overview

The 5 day interactive workshop is the second component of the staff development course offered by the Tropical Savannas CRC and the Charles Darwin University. This workshop brings NCRM professionals together in an intensive workshop to extend and build on the knowledge and understandings developed by completion of the web based program.

The workshop is framed by a commitment to an action based and critically reflective approach to learning in a mutually supportive and respectful atmosphere. It allows personal experience, theoretical inquiry and engagement with the NCRM aspirations and development agenda of the Larrakia people of the Darwin region to deepen and extend crosscultural engagement knowledge and skills.

Duration: 5 days

Venue: Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT.

Workshop facilitation: The workshop is jointly facilitated by representatives from the local indigenous community.

‘Two-way learning’

The Yolngu people of north east Arnhemland have developed a sophisticated notion of ‘two-way learning’ as a basis for curriculum development in their schools. ‘Two-way learning’ generates a dialogue between different knowledge systems. It maintains the differences between ways of knowing while at the same time emphasising overlaps and commonalities. This workshop invites you to experience Indigenous ways of learning and knowing alongside Western methods and knowledges.

The workshop has been devised by cooperation between the Larrakia and non-Indigenous educators.