In Focus webinar series

Importance of Indigenous knowledge for Indigenous students and lecturers

The presentation will be about the importance of Indigenous knowledge for Indigenous students and lecturers and the reasons why there is an expectation of cultural inclusion in higher education. Indigenous pedagogy in higher education will be discussed as practical implementation strategies for lecturers.

When: Monday 26th August at 12pm

Where: Please register at InFocus webinar registration

Who: Dr Tracy Woodroffe has 30 years’ experience as an educator. Dr Woodroffe is a lecturer and researcher in the Faculty of Arts & Society specialising in Education, Teaching Indigenous Learners and Indigenous Knowledge in Education. She is a local Warumungu Luritja woman with experience in Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary classrooms. Dr Woodroffe’s work includes Indigenous methodology in examining the Australian education system through an Indigenous Women’s Standpoint. She is a highly experienced educator with a keen interest in educational design, particularly catering for cultural inclusion. Professional membership includes AIATSIS, AILITEA, NATSIHEC and AARE, and Dr Woodroffe is an invited member of the NT Teacher Registration Board Quality Teaching Committee. Supervision includes Masters and PhD students in the areas of Indigenous approaches to education, decolonising knowledge, and Indigenous studies more broadly. She lectured in teacher education across the bachelor degrees in early childhood, primary and secondary. Dr Woodroffe also lectured in the Master of Teaching. She currently lectures in Humanities and is a 2024 NCSEHE First Nations Fellow researching in the area of Equity. Dr Woodroffe is the recipient of the CDU 2022 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence – First Nations Teaching Excellence and the 2023 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards in Research and Innovation — First Nations Research and Innovation Award.

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