Aboriginal culture is being used to teach maths and science
A new education programme integrates Aboriginal culture into teaching maths and science. "Not only do they learn to love these subjects, but they come out feeling truly proud to be Aboriginal," says Aboriginal educator and Wiradjuri woman, Cindy Berwick.
A group of passionate educators are taking Aboriginal students from the classroom to the campfire to spark a love of science, technology and maths.
"Not only do they learn to love these subjects, but they come out feeling truly proud to be Aboriginal."
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A new education programme integrates Aboriginal culture into teaching maths and science. "Not only do they learn to love these subjects, but they come out feeling truly proud to be Aboriginal," says Aboriginal educator and Wiradjuri woman, Cindy Berwick.
A group of passionate educators are taking Aboriginal students from the classroom to the campfire to spark a love of science, technology and maths.
"Not only do they learn to love these subjects, but they come out feeling truly proud to be Aboriginal."
"Learning about their culture is incredibly important for the identity of these children."
Connecting maths to kinship
Pictured: Starting a fire at culture camp
Wiradjuri students embracing their traditional Aboriginal culture at a camp held at Lake Burrendong.
"If you look at any science camp, students usually go to a university and get taught by a white male and typically students have no real connection with who they are."
Aboriginal astronomy can teach us about the link between sky and land- Wiradjuri woman, KirstenBanks, with a passion for space and astronomy
My favourite Aboriginal constellation is the Great Celestial Emu, the dark clouds of Our Milky Way manifesting as a huge emu in the Sky.
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See also:
· How ancient Aboriginal star maps have shaped Australia’s highway network
https://theconversation.com/how-ancient-aboriginal-star-maps-have-shaped-australias-highway-network-55952
· Australian Indigenous Astronomy
http://www.aboriginalastronomy.com.au/contact/
· Exploring the astronomical knowledge and traditions of Indigenous Australians
http://aboriginalastronomy.blogspot.com/
· The Emu Sky Knowledge of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi Peoples
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1403/1403.0304.pdf
· First Australians the oldest astronomers in the world
http://www.aboriginalastronomy.com.au/
· All Google postings on this
http://www.aboriginalastronomy.com.au/https://www.google.com/search?q=Australian+Aboriginal+astronomy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab
STAR STORIES of THE DREAMING documentary film
When the ancient wisdoms of the universe held by the oldest culture on earth meet modern astrophysics a new concept is born – cultural astronomy.
Increasingly Aboriginal people in Australia are being recognised as the first astronomers.
In the meeting of minds between Prof. Ray Norris, CSIRO astrophysicist project leader of the Evolutionary Mapping of the Universe (EMU) and Ghillar, Michael Anderson (http://nationalunitygovernment.org/), extraordinary parallels emerge in the two cultures – such as ‘wormholes’ and the pathway to Bullima, the Euahlayi Sky Camp, via the hollow Coolabah tree.
In Star Stories of The Dreaming Ghillar Michael Anderson shares publicly for the first time teachings passed to him as the knowledge holder for his People, the Euahlayi.
Star Stories of The Dreaming includes the Euahlayi Stories for: Wurrum-boorrool – Big river in the sky (Milky Way)
Mil-Mulliyan – Eye of the Creator – Venus – Evening star
Mulliyan-gar – Eye of the Creator – Morning Star – Mars
Goolee-bhar – Coolabah tree hollow, way to Bullima, the Sky Camp – Coalsack Dark nebula
Moo-dthe-gar – White cockatoos – 5 Stars of Southern Cross
Goomar-why – Sacred Fire near coolibah tree– Alpha Centauri Pointer of Southern Cross
Wunnargudjilwon – 3rd wife of Bhiaime – Large Magellanic Cloud
Wullar-gooran-bhoon – Younger brother to Wunnargudjilwon – Small Magellanic Cloud
Birringooloo – Mother Nature – Uluru her resting place
Gunumbielie – 2nd wife of Bhiaime, Caterer who now lives at Goomar-why, Sacred Fire
Gwaimudthun & Gweeghular – Night & Day– Dark & Light – moieties – 19 mile plain, Brewarrina
Garwaar-ghoo – Featherless Emu – Dark nebulae in Milky Way, Dust lanes and Galactic bulge
Bahloo – Moon, Waan – crow; Oolah – wood geckco
Yhi – sun
Mei Mei – Seven Sisters – Pleiades – Narran Lake and surrounding lakes; Bigoon – water rat; Gayadharri – platypus, Ghay-gharn – wood duck
Birray Birray – Brothers – Orion’s Belt
Womba Womba yiraay – Crazy Old Man at his camp – Aldebran
Wirrawilbaarru – Whirly wind – Bad spirit travels inside whirlywind – lives behind Scorpio and entry in and out is through black holes in Scorpio;
Buuliis – baldy mounds
Star maps/astral navigational waypoints – two chains of waterholes – Beta Sagittarii to Gamma Arae; Beta Sagittarii to Zeta Scorpii
These are phonetic spellings of Euahlayi words
Euahlayi Astronomy parallels with Einstein’s space-time theory
Ghillar Michael Anderson shares the Stories of the universe that can be told publicly. He has been doing this though oral presentations and now for a broader audience in the recently premiered film ‘Star Stories of The Dreaming’. In these Star Stories he has revealed ancient Stories of the stars, the Blackholes and the creation of the natural world that we all now belong to. Very recently Western scientific research has now confirmed these very ancient Stories about the Aboriginal world of Creation. The ancient Stories go much deeper than what science has delivered so far.
A team of scientists have announced that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity – New York Times. Read More