Black Spaces – Over View.

1. Centre of Aboriginal Medical, Dental, Health Science.Black Spaces: How to not get Bleached in the Teaching and Learning Environment.By Dr David Paul and Craig Allen.

3. Black Spaces – Over View. • Aims and Objectives. • Myriad. • The Teaching Experience. • The Learning Experience. • Where we at now? • The Future.

4. Aims and Objectives. • The aim/objective of today is to: • This framework should not be viewed as a ‘step by step’ or a prescriptive chronological “how to” teaching and learning guide. • These spaces are the result of an accumulation of a combination of factors. • Each item on their own are as equally important as each other, however once a number of these items are combined the capacity of the space increases.

5. Black Spaces - Aims and Objectives. • Black Spaces are not vacuous empty spaces. • Black Spaces create the opportunity for… • Our voice(s) to have a space. • Our voice(s) to be heard. • Active participation and representation at all levels. • Therefore an ability have power and control over determining our future (not only in the T&L environment also in terms of our health care service delivery).

6. Black Spaces - Aims and Objectives. • Black Spaces create the opportunity for… • A dynamic and interactive environments that are constantly changing and continual evolving. • Able to influence how people should behave – both as individuals within the space and as equally important the populations which inhabit these places (Burgess, 2007). • More resistant to Bleach (Whitening).

7. Black Spaces - Myriad. • Within teaching and learning environments there are (potentially)… • Multiple issues. • Multiple starting points. • Multiple solutions.

8. Black Spaces – Myriad. • Composition. • Singular staff member/champions. • Skill’s and Experience. • Politics. • Medical Faculty. • Meaningful (full) faculty engagement and participation. • Partnership’s. • Power, Control, Structure and Progressive learning. • Community Relationships. • Participation and Community Connections. • Other Consultation – Cultural and Professional.

9. Black Spaces – The Teaching Experience. • Support Structures. • Pre Teaching. • Teaching. • Post Teaching. • Structure learning. • Quality Assurance. • Challenging the Systems. • Sustainability.

10. Black Spaces – The Learning Experience. • Safe and Secure learning environments for students. • Challenging students educational experiences. • Supporting students educational experiences. • Aboriginal Students. • Non-Aboriginal Students. • A life long journey of learning. • Cultural. • Clinical.

11. Black Spaces – Now. • Are we achieving safe and secure teaching and learning environment? • Clinically Safe/Secure. • Culturally Safe/Secure. • Are we achieving the goals? • Yes. • How achievable and realistic are goals? • How high/low are we setting the bar? • Do we continually challenge the systems? • Have we created the ultimate working utopia?

12. Black Spaces – Now. • Prof Helen Milroy. • Prof David Paul. • A/Prof Paula Edgill. • A/Prof Adele Cox. • A/Prof Tamara Mackean. • A/Prof Marshall Watson. • A/Prof Craig Allen.

13. Black Spaces – Tomorrow. • The Future. • How do you know you’ve found a Black Space. • What’s the Attraction. • The Strengths. • Transferability.

14. So where do you fit in all of this?