Indigenous Knowledges in Learning and Teaching

The Flinders University Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) is part of our ongoing work and commitment to increase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community participation, retention and success in higher education. View our RAP.

Universities Australia guidance to help Australian universities ensure their course accreditation processes: encourage course accessibility and relevance for Indigenous Australians, respect and include Indigenous knowledges, and promote a more culturally inclusive and engaging society. View the Good Practice Principles.

Findings from the National Stocktake of Indigenous Cultural Competency in Australian Universities survey. View the findings. 

The Australia Council for the Arts’ Protocols for using First Nations Intellectual and Cultural Property in the Arts outlines the legal as well as the ethical and moral considerations for the use of Indigenous cultural material in arts and cultural projects. View the Protocols.

In partnership with Your Mob Learning, Flinders is pleased to offer Indigenous Cultural Awareness online training to all staff. Complete the course.

Resources, Information, Practice Tips, Self-Study Module. Access the resources.

Developed in accordance with the aims of the University’s Reconciliation Action Plan and in line with Protocols for using First Nations Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts, FUMA has co-designed ‘learning packages’ informed by 'object-based-learning' (OBL) approaches to curriculum design and centring on Indigenous Australian artworks drawn from the FUMA collections. These adaptive resources can be used in disciplines and across curriculum at either undergraduate or post-graduate levels. Access the resources.

Indigenous-led, national institute celebrating, educating and inspiring connections with the knowledge, heritage and cultures of Australia’s First Peoples. Visit AIATSIS.

Disseminates scholarship across the Humanities, Social Sciences, Health Sciences, Law and Education in the field of Indigenous Studies. Get published.

Indigenous ways of thinking and researching. Listen to the series.