Visit to Bunjilaka Exhibition
After my visit to the Bunjilaka exhibition at the Melbourne museum I connected with the story and it affected my learning where I wanted to learn more about the history and culture. I began to watch movies relevant to the colonisation of Australia and the stolen generations, Rabbit Proof Fence being one of them. My initial thoughts and feelings when entering the exhibition were how intense the setting was. The space was dark and gloomy, although it had well lit areas to portray the importance of the story the exhibition was telling. In contrast, I had discussions with a few family friends and they felt like the story was political and could be taken offensively. Especially when talking about Aboriginals being forced to fight in the Vietnam war, controversy was spoken about how the exhibition story tellers said that it shouldn't have been compulsory for Aboriginals as they weren't apart of this particular culture of war. Personally I believe that Aboriginal culture should be recognised as it is the true history of Australia and should be taught in schools. I believe the education should be informative and true knowledge. The teacher should engage children through the connection of place-thought and past-present to understand and grasp concepts effectively. A great exercise to incorporate an interesting lesson is too collect things outdoors and allowing the children the freedom to research certain aspects of their land and they place they live in.
After my visit to the Bunjilaka exhibition at the Melbourne museum I connected with the story and it affected my learning where I wanted to learn more about the history and culture. I began to watch movies relevant to the colonisation of Australia and the stolen generations, Rabbit Proof Fence being one of them. My initial thoughts and feelings when entering the exhibition were how intense the setting was. The space was dark and gloomy, although it had well lit areas to portray the importance of the story the exhibition was telling. In contrast, I had discussions with a few family friends and they felt like the story was political and could be taken offensively. Especially when talking about Aboriginals being forced to fight in the Vietnam war, controversy was spoken about how the exhibition story tellers said that it shouldn't have been compulsory for Aboriginals as they weren't apart of this particular culture of war. Personally I believe that Aboriginal culture should be recognised as it is the true history of Australia and should be taught in schools. I believe the education should be informative and true knowledge. The teacher should engage children through the connection of place-thought and past-present to understand and grasp concepts effectively. A great exercise to incorporate an interesting lesson is too collect things outdoors and allowing the children the freedom to research certain aspects of their land and they place they live in.
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