To engage indigenous students new ideas in education approaches include contextualization,
which is linking indigenous and western knowledge systems in education. It involves incorporating
aspects of indigenous perspectives and culture into schools, which aim to improve indigenous
learning engagement (Matthew, Watego, Cooper & Baturo ,2005). Contextualized learning is to
enable students to become fluent in a multitude of ways of knowing and to become competent in
western culture as well as home culture through bridging indigenous and western ontologies
(Rahman,2013). As a pre service teacher i would break down contextualization to focus on each
subject and find ways to converge indigenous knowledge and culture into examples and …show more content…
Evidence of successful contextualisation in relation to mathematics education for Australian
indigenous students is the example of a Yolngu community school in Yirrkala, in northern
Australia, successfully using western mathematics and Yolngu mathematics alongside each other.
In the Garma mathematics class, indigenous worldviews and student knowledge of indigenous
kinship systems and patterns were connected with Western mathematical notions; the practice
resulted in the students engaging successfully with the learning (Fleer ,2008).Students are able to
draw from their own cultural knowledge and understandings However, culturally responsive
schooling is not only about schools displaying cultural respect, sensitivity and value, but it is also
about schools believing in the academic potential of their students, holding high expectations of
them for their schooling, and ensuring that these expectations are realised (Gay, 2000, 2002).This
type of converging education empowers indigenous students academically, and has the …show more content…
The curriculum needs to also be responsive and respectful to
students cultural knowledge structures and practices. As a pre service teacher i would explore and
research the local people within my community. I would organise to have an appointment with a
representative and ask appropriate questions about the local indigenous ways and knowledge.
This will make me feel more confident when incorporating indigenous knowledge to my students
classroom. I feel that this would help me apply appropriate teaching methods to students with an
indigenous perspective. I will also use teaching support materials from the living knowledge project
which is accessible online to incorporate relevant teaching structures and practices within my
classroom for my students. There is a study comparing two classrooms, one culturally enhanced
with an Indigenous perspectives where the content and resources which were responsive to
indigenous students and the other was not. findings found that making the classroom curriculum
and structure more culturally compatible and relatable to home culture resulted in a success and
performed drastically better in social studies and exams compared to the other class. They
which is linking indigenous and western knowledge systems in education. It involves incorporating
aspects of indigenous perspectives and culture into schools, which aim to improve indigenous
learning engagement (Matthew, Watego, Cooper & Baturo ,2005). Contextualized learning is to
enable students to become fluent in a multitude of ways of knowing and to become competent in
western culture as well as home culture through bridging indigenous and western ontologies
(Rahman,2013). As a pre service teacher i would break down contextualization to focus on each
subject and find ways to converge indigenous knowledge and culture into examples and …show more content…
Evidence of successful contextualisation in relation to mathematics education for Australian
indigenous students is the example of a Yolngu community school in Yirrkala, in northern
Australia, successfully using western mathematics and Yolngu mathematics alongside each other.
In the Garma mathematics class, indigenous worldviews and student knowledge of indigenous
kinship systems and patterns were connected with Western mathematical notions; the practice
resulted in the students engaging successfully with the learning (Fleer ,2008).Students are able to
draw from their own cultural knowledge and understandings However, culturally responsive
schooling is not only about schools displaying cultural respect, sensitivity and value, but it is also
about schools believing in the academic potential of their students, holding high expectations of
them for their schooling, and ensuring that these expectations are realised (Gay, 2000, 2002).This
type of converging education empowers indigenous students academically, and has the …show more content…
The curriculum needs to also be responsive and respectful to
students cultural knowledge structures and practices. As a pre service teacher i would explore and
research the local people within my community. I would organise to have an appointment with a
representative and ask appropriate questions about the local indigenous ways and knowledge.
This will make me feel more confident when incorporating indigenous knowledge to my students
classroom. I feel that this would help me apply appropriate teaching methods to students with an
indigenous perspective. I will also use teaching support materials from the living knowledge project
which is accessible online to incorporate relevant teaching structures and practices within my
classroom for my students. There is a study comparing two classrooms, one culturally enhanced
with an Indigenous perspectives where the content and resources which were responsive to
indigenous students and the other was not. findings found that making the classroom curriculum
and structure more culturally compatible and relatable to home culture resulted in a success and
performed drastically better in social studies and exams compared to the other class. They