This must involve active consultation with, and direct input from, the local Aboriginal community. This unit provides students with opportunities to investigate lifestyles of Aboriginal people in Victoria and Australia-wide, and how Aboriginal people are perceived by others in the community. Both similarities and differences are highlighted. Students explore aspects of Aboriginal life today in urban, rural and remote locations. Students also investigate Kooire relationships with the land and gain understandings of the special spiritual relationship Koories have with the land they inhabit.
Students find out how community links are maintained in different settings.
In the teaching of this unit , it should be reinforced that stereotypes are to be avoided, as students need to realize that there is a wide range of Aboriginal tribes and cultures. Aboriginal people have unique social structure in which their concept of family is an integral part of their community and lifestyle. Aboriginal people maintain a special spiritual relationship with the lands they inhabit. Reconciliation means healing the ruptured relationships. Many Australians have never met an Indigenous person.