AUSTRALIAN history is being turned on its head by a groundbreaking project which is documenting hundreds of horrific massacres that make up our bloody past.
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)
onto GTAV Technology and cartography in Geography October 17, 2019 10:00 PM
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Thomas James Kurkowski's curator insight,
May 13, 2020 9:30 PM
The source talks of a map of Australian massacres of indigenous Australians. I could see myself using a resource like that to teach in accordance with AITSL standard 2.4 .
extended insight:
This resource would be useful in the history class because it makes the course content immediately relevant to the student's lived experience, it creates a launching point for driven students to discover their past and it is an excellent resource for showing the historical process in action.
As a tool to show the relevance to the student's history education, I think that showing the students that terrible things happened within their town in the recent past will be a shock to many students. In some of the later cases it is possible that the people that committed these massacres are the ancestors of people within the classroom. Ideally, the students should be able to find drive in the idea that there was a darker side to the development of many Australian towns which they grew up in. Hopefully students will begin to think critically about how Australia became what it is today in the context of colonial violence.
The best usage of the resource, however, is probably in how well it can be used to demonstrate the work and role of a historian.The resource is thorough in scope but light in detail, which means that it is a good launching point for students to fill in the gaps. in the manner that a historian would- via inquiry and the assessment of primary sources.
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