Activity: Responsibility Return to the definition of cultural responsibility you wrote in week one. Copy and paste that definition of cultural safety from weeks one, four and eight. Week 1 Cultural Safety definition: My Understanding of cultural safety includes offering an incredibly important space for people of diverse cultures to feel valued, respected, heard and…Continue Reading SCA2001 Week 10 – Activity 2

Activity: Oppression ‘Conflict in Insider Groups’. Reflect and respond to these questions, and consider other artists working in your field who you feel may have emulated positive or negative styles of leadership. Q. We can think about this at the scale of massive cultural groups, but we can also examine it in the power dynamics…Continue Reading SCA2001 Week 9 – Activity 2

Activity: Freire Now that you understand Freire’s work, create a new blog in your online portfolio and discuss the following:Q. In your career as a scholar through school and university, can you identify teachers in your life who taught in a way that was oppositional to Freire’s work? Yes, unfortunately, I must say the vast…Continue Reading SCA2001 Week 9 – Activity 1

Activity 2: FNC Considering the course content leading up to and including week 7, along with my life experiences I have composed the below response to the following question which was asked of a panel from ABC’s Q&A program (abcqanda, 2020) to gain a range of perspectives regarding reflections on the interactions between First Nations…Continue Reading SCA2001 Week 7 – Activity 2

Activity: Multiculturalism After watching the video by Alex Tran (Tran, 2020); a young Vietnamese resident of Inala who reflects upon his experience of learning about First Nations cultures (FNC), I have answered the following questions: Multiculturalism has issues surrounding more popular/dominant cultures/groups, which make up larger numbers often overshadowing smaller minority groups such as FNC…Continue Reading SCA2001 Week 7 – Activity 1

Activity: Representation and Perception After watching Dylan Alcott’s acceptance speech for winning 2022 Australian of the year (ABCNews, 2022), I noticed: He paid respect to the First Nations people in his opening address and pointed out the ramp by the stage in a humorous way, but I wondered if in reality he often sees a…Continue Reading SCA2001 Week 6 – Activity 1

Activity: Allyship in Disability Arts This blog post refers to the below scenario using Hadley’s terms to unpack (Hadley, 2019). Your peer – Jill – is the disabled artist. You both report to a non-disabled leader – Jack. The team is comprised of 12% disabled artists to 78% non-disabled.  Jill has spoken to you in…Continue Reading SCA2001 Week 5 – Activity 2

Activity: Allyship Reflecting on the privilege walk video (BFMP and Thomas, 2015), I understand that my privilege is fairly high being a white, married, heterosexual female from an English-speaking supportive working-class family living in a safe neighbourhood who has access to many support services. I am also not overly surprised that my privilege ended fairly…Continue Reading SCA2001 Week 5 – Activity 1

Activity: ‘Cultural Safety Update’ Back in week 1, I composed the below personal definition of cultural safety: My Understanding of cultural safety is that it offers an incredibly important space for people of diverse cultures to feel valued, respected, heard and celebrated. This safety includes a non-judgemental approach and welcomes knowledge sharing while embracing and…Continue Reading SCA2001 Week 4 – Activity 2

Activity: “Politically correct” I don’t feel uncomfortable or fearful of politically correct language; we are in a period of adjustment where many people are transitioning into a better understanding of how best to communicate with appropriate language. However, I sometimes feel slightly anxious about saying the wrong thing, such as automatically saying an incorrect pronoun….Continue Reading SCA2001 Week 4 – Activity 1

Activity: Reflecting on Welcome to Country Reflecting on Welcome to Country and what memories I have of a particularly compelling experience would be during a recent family holiday with my husband and 3 daughters to Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). During our trip, we took part in an incredibly memorable cultural tour with Matthew Burns; a…Continue Reading SCA2001 Week 2 – Activity 2

Activity: Queensland Theatre Case Study In an article from The Guardian in 2002; Queensland Theatre (QT) apologises for the lack of First Nations work in 2021 program announcement (Burke, 2020) and takes an honest look at the issues surrounding the non-representation of First Nations-centred work in programs released by a large company such as QT….Continue Reading SCA2001 Week 2 – Activity 1

Activity: Cultural Safety 1 Ethics involve the philosophical reasoning behind our decision-making, specifically, referring to the quality of our decisions rather than the number of daily choices, which take into account values, principles, beliefs and purpose (Centre, 2020). When I think about whom I have encountered in my life that possesses the four desirable traits…Continue Reading SCA2001 Week 1 – Activity 2

Activity: Cultural case studies Taking a moment to think about how others may react and feel relating to different cultural scenarios will help to grow my perceptions and values. After watching three videos on YouTube, I thought about how people I know from different generations, locations and genders would respond to what was responded to….Continue Reading SCA2001 Week 1 – Activity 1