Reflecting on a Way of Being- Anchor Principles of Cultural Assignment

Assignment Task

Using your required reading ‘Reflecting on a Way of Being: Anchor Principles of Cultural Competence' (Russell, 2020), reflect on your own positioning using the following prompts:

• What do you know / not know about Indigenous Australian peoples and communities
• Where and/or from whom did that knowledge come?
• What do you know / not know about Australian culture and history?
• Can you identify any limitations to what you know?
• Drawing on your reflection on the previous questions, consider which ‘anchor principles’ (Social Justice, Knowing Self, Re-storying, Action) you most identify with. How do these principles relate to your understanding of your own positioning? 

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The media is an example of a powerful institution which shapes our knowledge. Incorporate these prompt questions into a synthesized reflection:

• Thinking about your knowledge of Australian history, does the media resource provide all the information required to understand the issue being discussed? What information is missing?
• Is there a presumption that viewers already hold views about Indigenous peoples? What are the taken-for-granted assumptions?
• What would a viewer infer about the relationship between Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous peoples based on the resource? How are Indigenous and non-Indigenous people positioned in the resource? (e.g., is there a social or cultural norm evident? Are Indigenous peoples constructed as different to or divergent from the norm?) 
• Is there an Indigenous viewpoint included in the resource? If yes, how does the author use Indigenous perspectives to support or contradict the main message? If no, how could this influence a viewers' perception of Indigenous people and of the main message in the resource? 

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