Current Institution: Flinders University
Fellowship: OLT National Senior Teaching Fellowship at Flinders University
Fellowship Duration: 2014 - 2016
Many students and health professionals struggle to engage fully with Indigenous health curricula. North American medical education literature documents student resistance to the role of the social determinants of health in shaping patient presentations. In the Australian context, analysis of colonisation-related determinants can be sufficiently disquieting to lead to varying levels of student disengagement. Future efficacy in Indigenous health, through attainment of a comprehensively-informed, nuanced skill-set, along with the development of culturally-safe practice, is jeopardised. Additionally, without a critical mass of institutional support, Indigenous pedagogical perspectives can be discounted and core subject status dismantled.
This senior fellowship will collaboratively develop a program of activities that addresses the challenges of student and institutional engagement. Dissemination activities, involving national stakeholders, will embed strategies to increase the effectiveness of teaching in Indigenous health. Briefings will also be held with accreditation bodies, the key audience overseeing health professional curricula, to seek a targeted strengthening of institutional support for curriculum and staff.
Disciplines: Indigenous Teaching and Learning
The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows’ network (ALTF) was established in 2011 with support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The network comprises over 100 scholars who are well placed geographically, institutionally and within their discipline communities to promote and sustain effective learning and teaching in Australian higher education, now and into the future.
The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows’ network (ALTF) was established in 2011 with support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The network comprises over 100 scholars who are well placed geographically, institutionally and within their discipline communities to promote and sustain effective learning and teaching in Australian higher education, now and into the future.