AAFIE in Conversation

Join AAFIE's Dale Murray as he yarns with Dr. Tom Brunzell, Director of Education at Berry Street and Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. This episode is focused on supporting young people with complex unmet needs for learning and their re-entry into in-person learning.

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In this episode, Professor Julian Sefton-Green, Professor of New Media Education at Deakin University and AAFIE Board Member is joined by Taryn Marks, Wotjobaluk woman from Western Victoria, General Manager and previous Board Director of AIME. Taryn and Julian yarn about mentoring and why it matters for all people and in Taryn's space and experience for First Nations young people and their interface with education.
This conversation also speaks to mentoring as a experience - for mentor and mentee, issues of power, reciprocity, trust and the enhancement of individual experience and journey through the mentoring process.
See more about AIME at https://aime-mentoring.myshopify.com/

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In this episode, AAFIE's Dale Murray is joined by Dr John Davis, proud Murri Ambae man. JD is a Traditional Owner of the western sides of Bunya Bunya Mountains, Country his mob call Boobagarrn Ngumminge. JD is also the CEO of The Stronger Smarter Institute.
The ‘Strong and Smart’ approach, developed by Dr Chris Sarra at Cherbourg State School, is now used in schools across the country to embrace a strong and positive sense of what it means to be Aboriginal in contemporary Australian society. The Stronger Smarter Institute has a vision for Stronger Smarter communities across Australia, where all people are strong in culture, strong in identity and enjoy prosperous, safe and healthy lives.
JD's core work roles over the past decade have focused on educational excellence, woven within a team environment.“Wherever I weave, I lay a footprint based on sustaining excellence – a core feature of my work outcomes – growing leadership density and developing cultures of excellence and aspirations”.
In this episode Dale and JD, yarn about Language and it's connection to Culture, Identity and Country and the significance of language to contemporary Australia and the path to healing. This yarn acknowledges the true testament that language and culture has held on this land, in it's people, through its dance, art and songlines for over 60,000 years.
JD yarns about education, and how the acknowledgement of 60,000 years of knowledge, tradition and connection to Country can not be disregarded in our classrooms for all students, but particularly for First Nations kids. JD tells of his mob, their connection to language and three ways of speaking through the artifacts of his mob - clapstick from Elders, Clapstick for the next generation and firestick that is part of their songline, that place of Boobagarrn Ngumminge - beautiful fire country.
Dale describes JD "as a man with a big fire in his heart, that burns coolly across our Country".

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The first comprehensive research on ‘flexis’ across Australia. The foremost national flexi provider in the country. Put these two together and you get MAGIC! In this episode Prof. Kitty te Riele & Dale Murray yarn about how it all started, the Doing School Differently Conference & AAFIE. What they’ve learnt since then, and where they see it all going...

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