How did First Nations people learn before books, school and the internet?
What are some of the teaching places on Country? Can a cave or a beach be a classroom?
What’s the role of rock art, like engravings, stencils and prints, in the ‘oldest classroom’?
What are the different kinds of classrooms First Nations kids learn ion today?
Students at La Perouse Primary School in Sydney tell us what they know about how their ancestors learnt on Country.
Wayne Brennan and host Axel Clark visit a very old rock shelter on Dharug and Gundungurra Country. We hear about different kinds of rock art, learning when you’re ready and ways of passing down knowledge.
Merrikiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs invites us into her classroom at Yirrkala Bilingual School in North East Arnhem Land.
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Voices
Episode image
Red ochre used in painting. Image courtesy of the National Museum of Australia.
Transcript
Music
Thannoid and Highway 94 by Blue Dot Sessions.
Credits
Thanks to all the students whose voices you hear in this episode and their schools and teachers: Princes Street Primary school, Marrickville West Primary School, Westbourne Grammar School, Preshill Primary School, La Perouse Primary School, and Yirrkala Bilingual School.
Hey History! is produced by the Australian Centre for Public History at UTS and UTS Impact Studios.
Impact Studios' executive producer is Sarah Gilbert.