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Relate Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander culture to sites work

Relate Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander culture to sites work

Unit of competency
National Code
AHCCSW302
State Code
OFC23
TGA Status
Current
DTWD Status
Approved
Current Release Number
1.00
Current Release Date
24/01/2023
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State Implementation and Classification
Approved Date
09/06/2023
Field of Education
090311 - Indigenous Studies
Original Release Date
09/06/2023
Nominal Hours
45
Description
This unit of competency describes the skills and knowledge required to understand cultural landscapes from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander perspectives. The unit introduces overarching belief systems that operate where Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander sites work takes place. It provides a conceptual foundation for understanding Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural protocols, cultural customs and cultural practices that the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander sites worker is likely to encounter in daily work routines.This unit applies to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander worldviews and beliefs as they impact and affect Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander sites work on Country. The unit applies to working either as an autonomous sites worker or under the supervision and Cultural Authority of Traditional Owners or Elders for specific Country and is also applicable to the work of repatriation workers and anthropologists.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Notes
Elements and Performance Criteria
1. Apply understanding of local traditional cultural interactions when working with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People
  • 1.1 Integrate the relationship to the land into daily work routines
  • 1.2 Determine relationships of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander objects, features and cultural landscapes to cultural beliefs
  • 1.3 Determine the interrelationship of discrete local Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander sites to cultural interactions
  • 1.4 Acknowledge and respect traditional knowledge, belief systems, customs and cultural practices in managing Country
  • 1.5 Ensure Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) rights have been addressed with local Communities
2. Recognise local traditional Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander social interactions
  • 2.1 Investigate diverse language groups and local customs
  • 2.2 Identify extended family structures and clans in physical and geographical locations
  • 2.3 Relate natural structures and associated stories about Ancestral beings from the Creation Period to landscape features and sites
  • 2.4 Identify social structures that define the social positions, behaviours and obligations in local Communities
  • 2.5 Identify the kinship system for determining roles and responsibilities
3. Relate local Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander spirituality to the landscape
  • 3.1 Acknowledge and record beliefs that determine Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural protocols
  • 3.2 Define and document the connection between spirituality and the land in local and trans-local terms of identity, culture and food
  • 3.3 Relate the historical and present living environments to Dreaming stories and cultural knowledge
  • 3.4 Recount cultural language and customs embedded in the relationship to the land and cultural sites
  • 3.5 Define and document the relationships of Creation stories, oral histories, kinship and totems to the cultural landscape
  • 3.6 Recount the sense of belonging to the land and culture embedded in landscape in culturally appropriate ways and how it relates to sites work
  • 3.7 Express elements of spirituality in Ceremony, stories, dance, song, art and language
4. Relate the interactions between the Dreaming, traditional beliefs and ceremonies to local cultural sites work
  • 4.1 Record the effects of cultural disconnection with the land, spirituality and ceremonial expressions of culture
  • 4.2 Record impacts of disintegration and disconnection on Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander sites
  • 4.3 Acknowledge and respect the evolving nature of the Dreaming
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Replaces
State Code National Code Title Type
BAL67 AHCASW302 Relate Aboriginal culture to sites work Unit of competency