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B UROINJIN AN I NTERCULTURAL S UCCESS S TORY ACSA C ONFERENCE 2013 Slide 2 O VERVIEW OF W ORKSHOP AND T IMELINE OF B UROINJIN IN THE ACT - What is Buroinjin? - From humble beginnings in the ACT in 2010 - Buroinjin and the ACT Secondary Sports Association (ACT SSA) - The challenges of sustaining Buroinjin as an ACT SSSA sport - 2011 experimental rules: HPE teachers and the Aboriginal Sporting Corporation ACT - Sustainability of Indigenous perspectives in HPE. What are the issues? - Buroinjin in pre-service teacher education at the University of a Canberra - Ngunnawal statement of how Indigenous perspectives should be taught in PE - Torres Strait Island Dance in HPE - Practical (playing Buroinjin Year 7/8 version) Slide 3 S USTAINABILITY OF I NDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES IN HPE S OME RESEARCH F INDINGS In-service teachers spoke about the reasons why they did not teach Indigenous perspectives in their physical education (PE) classes. These included: - Lack of exposure to Indigenous traditional games as part of their degrees - Concerns about offending the Indigenous community through wrongly teaching the games - Uncertainties about what activities could be taught by non- Indigenous people especially dance - Lack of in-service professional development - Lack of resources and lack of time to access resources - Concerns about what to take out their lessons to include Indigenous perspectives, - Not knowing or valuing the games - Beliefs that Indigenous content was not relevant to PE, and should or is covered in other key learning areas in the curriculum. Slide 4 Buroinjin commences with a jump ball Slide 5 A ball running passing tag game Slide 6 Restarts from side and end lines Slide 7 In play rule 5 steps bounce then 5 steps pass Slide 8 Year 7/8 score by hitting plastic stump or base Slide 9 Year 9/10 score by hitting wooden stump Slide 10 Lyneham High at the 2011 ACT SSSA Event Slide 11 Popularity of Buroinjin Compared to Rugby League at Lyneham High School Slide 12 K OEDAL AH B AIDHAM A UGUDHALAIGH G EREL (K OEDAL ) Slide 13 Teaching Koedal as part of NAIDOC Week 2011 Slide 14 Students watch Koedal cultural background interview Slide 15 Non Indigenous teachers teaching Koedal