10. Enabling the Global Classroom
Damien Feneley
Damien.feneley@det.nsw.edu.au
RCE Greater Western Sydney, Australia
Editor's Notes
Bundeluk – an Aboriginal artist and educator. The powerful role of art, symbol, image and story in connecting Aboriginal people to culture and country. For more than 60,000 years these learning pathways have upheld a standard, maintained a balance and created one of the most sustainable cultures to ever exist
Bora ground initiation. When young boys began to demonstrate the qualities of a good man, responsible, brave, kind, compassionate etc, the men of the clan group would invite the boy to initiation. The local bora ground was a large rock platform with symbols and images engraved across it, they represented a learning pathway into adulthood, manhood. Scarring and tooth knocked out. The men of the clan group then held that boy to a standard
A document developed to align with the Quality Teaching standards
Connection to country and culture
A learning pathway
Uphold the standards
A shift away:
A new political agenda, less support for renewable energy
A shift in social discourse from energy consumption to price of energy
Exposed the vulnerable nature:
The abolition of departments, positions and programs
EfS was operating very much as an extra-curricula activity
A relentless obsession with Literacy and Numeracy
We need a robust curriculum:
A scope and sequence that systematically develops the core skills
Innovation, creativity, collaboration, design etc
That addresses shifting political agendas, that is not aligned to a cause
The content will look after itself
Pedagogy that enables this learning, focusing on the verbs, not the nouns
We need to engage with the arts
To connect, give meaning and make sense
To foster creative solutions to complex problems
We need a global classroom
To uphold a shared standard and value
