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Learning cultural, ecological and food literacies through the Gumbaynggirr Pathway of Knowledge Project
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Learning cultural, ecological and food literacies through the Gumbaynggirr Pathway of Knowledge Project

Angela Turner
Food education and food technology in school curricula : international perspectives, pp.297-317
Contemporary Issues in Technology Education, Springer
2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39339-7_20
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Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. Economics, Business and Management) Continuing and Community Education Syllabus and Curriculum Development
This chapter presents research from a project collaboration undertaken in New South Wales, Australia, between a rural primary school, local Aboriginal Gumbaynggirr Elders and Southern Cross University. The research responded to an expressed school and community need for teacher professional development on local Aboriginal culture. The aim was to understand food values at the core of Australian native food and plant knowledge systems, coupled with developing transferable teaching strategies for the classroom. Exploring and understanding natural food sources were triangulated between Australian Aboriginal science and Western science, visualised through nature journaling. Accordingly, the research methodology assigned three settings of engagement: (1) the embedding of local Gumbaynggirr perspectives in curriculum delivery across years K-6 in an integrated, culturally sustaining and cross-curriculum manner (cultural literacies), (2) the embedding of sustainability perspectives to better understand earth’s natural systems and food supply sources (ecological literacies) and (3) the embedding of food technology and design applications, to enhance student learning on Australian native plants as a science, an art, and a sustainable, healthy lifestyle (food technology and design literacies).

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