How We Do Business : Setting the Agenda for Cultural Competence at the University of Sydney

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students face a range of barriers to participating and succeeding at university. To address these barriers, it is critical that universities create an environment where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students feel they belong and are culturally safe. Deve...

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Main Authors Juanita Sherwood, Gabrielle Russell-Mundine
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LanguageEnglish
Published 01.01.2017
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Summary:Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students face a range of barriers to participating and succeeding at university. To address these barriers, it is critical that universities create an environment where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students feel they belong and are culturally safe. Developing cultural competence at all levels of the university system is a critical mechanism to address these barriers and to create a safe teaching and learning environment. The University of Sydney (the University) is committed to embedding cultural competence throughout the whole university. To facilitate its strategy, it has established the National Centre for Cultural Competence (NCCC) to become a thought leader in cultural competence philosophy, process, praxis and methods. The NCCC's mandate is to lead the thinking for individual, organisational and systemic changes that are genuinely transformational within the complex communities of the University and beyond. This chapter discusses the approach the NCCC has taken to lay the foundation for an environment that is culturally safe and where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students will flourish. While the University's strategy encompasses a range of policies and programs, this chapter will focus on the implications of the change agenda for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and will set out the rationale for locating this systemic change in a cultural competence framework. [Author abstract]
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Indigenous Pathways, Transitions and Participation in Higher Education
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In 'Indigenous Pathways, Transitions and Participation in Higher Education' edited by Jack Frawley, Steve Larkin, James A. Smith, pages 133-150. Singapore : Springer Singapore, 2017
ISBN:9789811040610
9811040613
DOI:10.1007/978-981-10-4062-7_9