aborigional and torres strait islander ways of knowing

Question 1

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Answer 1

are among the oldest known continuous cultures in the world. There is a great diversity of nations, clans, languages, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs that have survived over 50, 000 years.

Question 2

Ways of knowing

Answer 2

peoples ways of knowing are holistic and relational to country - the land, the waterways and seas to which they are connected through ancestral ties and family origins.

Question 3

Country

Answer 3

Connection to the country also has ongoing life responsibilities to the land where a person is born or where their ancestors were born.

also crucial to identity

Question 4

Knowledge

Answer 4

the vast amount of knowledge is embedded in country. Knowledge is a multimodal form of learning and is shared in multimodal ways such as narratives, soon dance and ceremony.

Question 5

connection

Answer 5

When human beings interact as communal people, behaviors are modeled to their young people, those young people in return mimic and replicate the same or similar behaviors.

Question 6

story of the landscape

Answer 6

there are stories for everything with spirit, on land and in the seas everything comes from a place of spirit. In these stories, there are values of how we are to behave that are stored.