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See PrimaryConnections Indigenous perspectives Teaching and learning guide for pedagogical recommendations. An Indigenous perspectives professional learning module has been developed for the MakingConnections – a guide for facilitators manual. The module includes links to each chapter of the Connecting Minds DVD.

See Students’ worldviews

Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations’ Values for Australian schooling homepage. http://www.curriculum.edu.au/values/values_homepage,8655.html

Providing teacher support materials for curriculum developments incorporating intercultural understandings in teaching science. Michael Michie and Mark Linkson. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the Australasian Science Education Research Association, Fremantle WA, 29 June - 1 July 2000. http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mmichie/handbook.htm

Where are Indigenous peoples and their knowledge in the reforming of learning, curriculum and pedagogy? Michael Michie, Darwin. Paper presented at the Fifth UNESCO-ACEID International Conference "Reforming Learning, Curriculum and Pedagogy: Innovative Visions for the New Century", Thailand, 1999. http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mmichie/aceid.html

Science Teachers’ Worldviews: A Way to Understand Beliefs and Practices,
Yalcin Yalaki, Hacettepe University, Turkey. International History, Philosophy, Sociology and Science Teaching Conference 2005. http://www.ihpst2005.leeds.ac.uk/papers/Yalaki.pdf

The Living Knowledge website is part of a three year Australian Research Council (ARC) research project Indigenous knowledge and Western science pedagogy: a comparative approach. http://livingknowledge.anu.edu.au/learningsites/index.htm

An online teacher in-service module which was part of the project ‘Learning for a sustainable environment: a professional guide for teacher educators’ developed by the UNESCO-Asia Pacific Centre of Educational Innovation for Development & Griffith University, Queensland. http://www.ens.gu.edu.au/ciree/LSE/mod5.htm

The ideas of classification used in science are not shared by Indigenous people. Their classifications tend to be based on utility, not the same criteria which we use in the different areas of science.
See http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mmichie/engag_class.htm

If you have any inquiries, please contact Robyn Bull, Project Coordinator and Indigenous Perspectives Coordinator, PrimaryConnections on (02) 6201 9427 or robyn.bull@science.org.au