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Charles Darwin
University - Transforming Education 2004
CDU In 2004 Charles
Darwin University (NT) delivered a subject pushing students to challenge
and re create educational spaces at a community level. It was labelled
transformative Education and it inspired students to challenge many aspects
of education.
The AWT granted $500,
which was awarded, to four students who established three different
projects. These were as follows:
Project – Self
Worth through PE
Charmaine Scroggins
Charmane lives in a low
sociol economic area of Darwin with a high indigenous population called
Moulden. Her project links students back to school and provides a positive
space for them within a sports setting. It targets students considered ‘high
risk young people’ and thus Moulden midgets netball were
born….for girls and boys of different age groups that trained
regularly as well a integrating, health, team work, peer support, role
modelling, education and conflict management … to name a few.
They project was set up
in conjunction with Moulden Primary School and incorporated interaction at
school which was then followed through after hours in training,
communications and team building exercises as well as at matches.
Project - Batchelor
Area School (BAS) Community Resilience Program David Birch
BAS is a small community
approximately 100 km south of Darwin is the home to Batchelor Institute of
Indigenous Education as well as pre, primary and secondary schools. This
program was conceived to support BAS students to cope with trauma and other
emotional challenges that they might face during their adolescent years.
The program was a response to the difficulty BAS students and community had
in coping with the death of one of their peers. From this the community and
teachers articulated the need to develop a resilience program.
David’s project was
to establish how such a program would work in terms of provision and
funding. David developed these plans, ideas and concepts through intense
community discussions and feedback from community, students, teachers and
professionals. While the program is still in its initial phases, David will
remained involved as the program is implemented and continue communications
with all involved to ensure the best outcomes for students of Batchelor.
Project –
Creating Resilience through PE
Kristian Leach and Ashley Pitkin
The project involved
Kristian and Ashley developing a basketball program between Dripstone High
School (DHS, Darwin) and Don Dale Education Unit (DDEU, located at juvenile
justice, jail). The project involved taking a group of year 10 boys to DDEU
on a weekly basis to play basket ball with the DDEU students before having
a barbeque and some social time between the two groups of students. Footage
of the basketball games was taken and DDEU students implemented this
footage into their schoolwork both on the computer and through literacy.
The program was
challenging for all students involved and broke down many preconceptions
and bias from boys at both schools. It also created a space for the
students at DDEU to have positive and healthy social contact, which had
been previously impacted by their incarceration. The stigmas of the DDEU as
being ‘anti – social’ or ‘dangerous’ were also
dispelled among the privileged few that were able to participate in the
program. Such a program had never been established before and benefited
strongly students from both schools. Most inspiringly it normalised both
groups to the other in a way that many adults in our society are able to
achieve…. And the boys had a ball.
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