Quotes for “Diversity”

Class 1 Tutorial:

  • “[…] she thought it was very tame but most non-Aboriginal people thought it was very sad.” (10/09/2015)
  • “It’s always good to read more than one source.” (29/10/2015)
  • “Furthermore, she explains the significance of autobiographies, written by the person himself or herself, by saying that when it is raining she often tells her colleagues what a lovely day it is while in their opinion, the weather is horrible.” (29/10/2015)
  • “In one specific autobiography she read it was interesting to see how the representation in the media differed from the person’s own account.” (29/10/2015)
  • “[…] where the students perceived something that was normal to her as ‘history’.” (29/10/2015)

Interview with S1:

  • “You get people who are like more into saving animals than saving the rainforest, you know.”

Interview with S3:

  • “Just realising ehm () you know some of the things I say and some of things I do and just how ehm () just how you need to respect other cultures more and stuff like that.”

Interview with L3:

  • “listening to a non-Aboriginal student talk about an aspect of the Stolen Generations compared to an Indigenous student talking about ehm an aspect of the Stolen Generations.”
  • “the way I read something and the way you read something, ehm you know, they’d be slightly different”
  • “hopefully as you’re talking about something with your peer or your friend they will, you will suggest something that they didn’t realise . Or vice versa and then you get to maybe draw and grab other things.”
  • “we do have a cultural diverse ehm student population”
  • “I attempted to bring in the international students into our learning sometimes and draw on your experiences in your home wor- your home () your home lives into the classroom. Ehm hopefully engage you in the classroom. But also connect the rest of the audience to the, the diversity that’s, that lives in that classroom”

Interview with S2:

  • “you’re answers wouldn’t be the same as my answers. But they’re somehow marked () I don’t know. On a (equivalent) basis. Yours are just as valid as mine.”

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