Quality and Equity: Enhancing Standards in Indigenous Community Management Degrees

2. Quality and Equity: Enhancing Standards in Indigenous Community Management Degrees Susan Page - Macquarie University, Australia Sonya Pearce - University of Technology, Sydney Lana Leslie - Macquarie University Sam Altman - Macquarie University The 6th International Pacific Rim Conference on Indigenous Education Cairns, Dec 21st 2010.

3. Presentation Overview • Collaborative learning & teaching project • Indigenous community management • Define standards • Progress on project

4. Our Project: Background Yarning Initial Benchmarking Forum of Tertiary Providers in Indigenous Community Management & Development Studies • Our Hopes • Relationships • Connections • Conversations Application for Funding MQ Learning and Teaching Priority Grant

5. Indigenous Community Management/ Development Degrees • 3 universities run courses • Students & workplaces • Block release Academic programs • Indigenous perspectives • Management • Leadership • Research

6. Defining Standards Learning outcomes described in terms of core discipline knowledge and core discipline specific skills. There are minimum standards expressed as core learning outcomes that all student must have achieved to graduate. (ALTC)

7. International Bologna, Tuning International and National Context NationalAQF/TEQSA/ALTC Discipline community Institutional Indigenous Community Management

8. Community Employers Elders Consultations with Key Stakeholders Students Graduates Funding Bodies Employers

9. Considerations in Developing Standards • Value Indigenous knowledge & knowledge holders • Standards to strengthen culture & identity • Standards which address legacy of colonialism • Recognise complexity/avoid reductionist assumptions

10. Examples of Standards • Graduates are well grounded in the cultural heritage and traditions of their community (University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2002) • Show how history and historians shape the present and the future (ALTC History standards)

11. Where to from here? • Large project to develop standards • Seek further funding – university/ALTC • Emerging disciplinary community? • National workshop • International reference group?

12. Our Contact Details