- “Ehm as an Aboriginal person, storytelling is very, very important. Ehm that’s how we learn traditionally.”
- “For example like my environmental science teacher I consider her to be a very spiritual person. Because her responsibility and her opinions and beliefs for environmental values and ethics () are very:: () her- they’re very like personal and ethics and relationship to the environment is personal.”
- “if you brought in the ehm scope to more like organic topics then you’re able to definitely bring in spirituality.”
- “If you’re teaching ehm a history class about a certain culture or something like that I think it should be () that should be introduced into that class because it is such an important aspect for certain cultures.”
- “they just really want us to understand like the culture”
- “Having an understanding of yourself and your culture and what it means to be part of a a community is really () important in this institution because the idea of community, understanding of community values is is everyday working practice within here. And if you’re a () strongly, more strongly identified with () some of the non-indigenous understandings of ehm individualism […] you might find some () () difficulties with some of the practices within this institution.”
- “I think ehm () as a teacher () you really () can’t, cannot give up yourself. Tell who you are and what you are in your teaching practices. It’s just () from my understanding of teaching it’s unavoidable.”
- “I think the idea of ehm shared experience and humour is something that is part of ehm Aboriginal cultures or Indigenous cultures.”
- “Because I think the idea of () for Indigenous people, their idea of storytelling and spirituality is something that they are a::nd because it’s- as a teacher you share who you are and you absolutely can’t avoid it.”
- “when I talk about community I’m actually talking about family so there is that love and respect and spiritual connection that’s part of all that. Ehm and again when I talk about spiritual I’m not talking about religious I’m talking about that lived experience, part of my life ehm that’s part of me and my spirit, my engagement with the world.”
- “I think it’s () different and it’s in keeping with how Indigenous society is anyway.”
- “Based on the culture of what they’re teaching.”
- “it’s all about culture and spirituality and relationship and it’s a completely different way of looking at (right) and relating to other people.”
- “That not only L3’s course but all the courses that are run in the Institute are () just- they come from a cultural base. Cultural identity rather than academic- purely academic background.”
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