Cultural and Health Education Training

Guiding principles

Cultural and Health Education Training

Guiding principles

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural and Health Training Framework > Cultural and Health Education Training > Guiding principles

Sovereignty, leadership, equity, self- determination and governance in education and training will be demonstrated through the strategic and meaningful engagement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical educators and cultural educators in the educational programs.

They will lead the development, implementation and embedding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educational values and principles.

Decolonisation requires dissecting and unpacking some of the western frameworks that drive our current educational and training systems and processes, especially those that are ineffective at producing appropriate and sustainable outcomes for teaching and learning in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contexts.

Indigenisation is reflected though valuing, incorporating and adequately resourcing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education methodologies into training including experiential and immersive learning.

Educational design will be culturally safe and cultural safety teaching will be embedded throughout the training program.

Racism and discrimination will be proactively addressed and removed from educational systems and content and the effects of privilege minimised.

Education and training will use a strengths-based approach, eliminating negative discourse and deficit approaches by engaging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being, doing and leveraging cultural strengths and capabilities.

This includes actively deconstructing negative stereotyping within the educational content.

Trauma-informed teaching and assessment approaches are incorporated across the whole scope of training.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health educational and training data will be carefully managed, culturally appropriate and exercise principles of Indigenous data sovereignty.

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