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
SCA2001 Week 10 – Activity 1
Activity: Existence = Resistance Q. Consider what spaces could you occupy and it would be considered an act of resistance? Does this spark anything in your imagination in regard to your artwork? Reflecting back on my responses to Week 9 Activity 1, I have come to the realisation that having dyslexia and working within the educational sector…Continue Reading SCA2001 Week 10 – Activity 1
SCA2001 Week 9 – 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
SCA2001 Week 9 – Activity 1
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
SCA2001 Week 8 – Activity 1
Activity: Queer Responses Reflect on the following questions in your online portfolio: Q1. What examples from the past or recent history of queer representation can you find in your art form? How is queerness represented? Would you say it is an authentic representation? How does intersectionality complicate the representation? My career in the fashion industry…Continue Reading SCA2001 Week 8 – Activity 1
SCA2001 Week 7 – Activity 2
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
SCA2001 Week 7 – Activity 1
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
SCA2001 Week 6 – 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
SCA2001 Week 5 – Activity 2
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
SCA2001 Week 5 – Activity 1
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
