Overview

Maps and Dreams is organized around the different forms of encounter and interaction that have marked relations between Indigenous people and colonisers in Australian history, and around the different forms of mapping that has passed them into history. Along the way, it asks questions about identity, conflict, and coexistence, and … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Aims

This topic aims to:

  • Introduce students to the forces that have shaped Australians' perceptions of Indigenous-settler relations in the past and the ways that Australian history is used in the present
  • Provide a general knowledge of Australian race-relations and more specific knowledge of some of its distinctive features across time and place
  • Encourage students to think about racial politics and power and their impact on Australian and non-Australian circumstances and the ways they might be inscribed in the Australian political and physical landscape
  • Develop students' ability to use different kinds of historical evidence to construct complex explanations, enhancing their research and communication skills
  • Foster an atmosphere of mutual respect that encourages students to develop as both independent learners and cooperative creative thinkers

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
1.
Analyse significant themes, and the causes and consequences of events, in Australia's history of Indigenous-settler relations
2.
Analyse the continuities and discontinuities in representations of Indigenous-settler relations since the eighteenth century
3.
Appraise the significance of First Nations art as historical evidence of Indigenous-settler relations, individually and in small groups
4.
Evaluate a range of scholarly and artistic interpretations of the past

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