IND711 - Exploring Collaborative Land Management
Unit details
| Year: | 2024 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Community Based Delivery (CBD)* |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Previously coded as: | SQE741 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Suzanne Nunn |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | Community Based Delivery (CBD): Students are required to attend 2 x 1-week intensive lectures, seminars and fieldtrips per trimester at Waurn Ponds (Geelong) |
Note:*Community Based Delivery (CBD) is for National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute students only. | |
Content
The inclusion of interested parties and their local knowledge in the implementation of Land and Sea Country management has been steadily growing, with power sharing and negotiation processes becoming adopted systematically throughout Australia. Broadly described as collaborative management, this power sharing is typically between the State and resource ‘users’ at either a local and/or regional level. Today, decision-making processes involved in program implementation inevitably necessitates a broader engagement with knowledge and values other than those provided by western science and neoclassical economics. Today, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge is required for a whole of Country approach to collaborating in the diverse arenas of land and sea Country management. This unit will explore the nature of these changing relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and Australia's settler society. It will also examine examples of increasing dialogue between the two knowledge systems. Themes will include: cultural burning practices, Protected Area management priorities, cultural heritage safeguarding, the inclusion of Country based knowledge systems, two-way learning, Sea Country management and community capacity building. The assessment tasks are designed to identify characteristics of successful co-design projects in local areas, present Case Studies on differing types of collaborative programs and lastly, deliver a presentation that offers recommendations for collaborative processes that can improve collaborative management on the Country you work on.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Western knowledges to clearly and concisely describe key concepts used in collaborative land management | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Apply Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and Western knowledges to critically analyse and develop a response to examples of collaborative management of land and sea Country | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO4: Critical thinking GLO8: Global citizenship |
| ULO3 | Use technology to support the research, presentation and discussion of the knowledge and practices of collaborative land and sea Country management | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO3: Digital literacy |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1: Review of Collaborative Practices | 1500 words | 30% | Week 4 |
| Assessment 2: Case Studies in Collaborative management | 2000 words | 40% | Week 8 |
| Assessment 3: Narrated Presentation | 1500 words or equivalent | 30% | Week 11 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.
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