EDMED7073 First Nations: Issues in Education
This course is designed to focus on issues in education for First Nations peoples. Focussing predominantly on Australia and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, it will provide scope for students to pursue issues of interest to them in the area of their professional work. Providing effective, high standard mainstream education services to First Nations students is one of the enduring challenges facing education bureaucracies, whether they are providing early childhood, primary, secondary or adult education services. This course will engage with developing cultural awareness through understanding history, examining the impact of colonial policies and deficit discourses and the importance of cultural protocols in moving towards reconciliation. The course develops an understanding of culturally inclusive teaching pedagogies at a system and school level.
Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) unit fee
A Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) is one that is subsidised by the Australian Government, which means students only pay the student contribution amount of the tuition fee. CSPs are only available to eligible domestic students.
The student contribution amount depends on the unit and how much funding the Government provides. Each unit is classified into a band based on its discipline (which may be different to your overall course discipline).
2025 student contribution amount: $4,248
2025 grandfathered student contribution amount (for students who commenced before 1 Jan 2021*): $1,993
* If you are a continuing student (who commenced your course before 1 January 2021) you will continue paying the same amount as you would have, had legislative reforms not been implemented for any units that would otherwise have an increased student contribution amount.