Principal speaker
Dr Marcus Waters, Acting Senior Engagement Coordinator, Office of the Pro Vice Chancellor (Indigenous) - Griffith University, as well as an internationally renowned playwright, screenwriter, jornalist and academic.
Event Overview:
Australia is going through great change. Identity politics, cries for social justice, the Black Lives Matter movement, Aboriginal deaths in custody, together with calls to change the date of Australia Day, are issues that either bring us together or tear us apart. What can't be disputed is that we are a country divided.
Dr Marcus Waters, Dean Learning and Teaching (Indigenous), Office of the Pro Vice Chancellor (Indigenous) Griffith University, will share his personal journey in successfully taking his identity from a negative to a positive construction, built on inclusive collegiate practice in such a way that allows for a move beyond the binary and its associated power relations by bringing people together, rather than keeping them apart.
Dr Waters is well equipped to discuss these issues, as someone who has successfully negotiated institutional success while retaining his own cultural identity as a Kamilaroi Aboriginal writer and language speaker.
His highly personalised story - sometimes emotional, sometimes funny - will encourage to you reflect on what it means to be Australian, and to appreciate learning and teaching as an inter-related life journey that incorporates life experience, academic, professional, personal, and spiritual values into the classroom. A methodology in teaching that brings together ways of knowing, ways of being, and how through making personal connections, these strategies link to the longevity of wellbeing for all Australians.
About the Presenter:
Come and join Dr Marcus Waters as he shares his story, taken from his Aboriginal mother at birth, then introduced to his third world Aboriginal community as a teenager - having overcome extreme poverty and trauma to become a highly successful academic and author. An internationally renowned published playwright, screenwriter, journalist and academic, Dr Waters is a Native Title Applicant, an executive member of the Northern Basin Aboriginal Nations (NBAN) and an elected member of the Indigenous Sub-Committee on the Murray Darling Basin Authority advocating for Sovereign First Nations rights to water at the highest level of Australian Government.
A past winner of the Griffith University Excellence in Teaching Award, Dr Waters will draw from his own background from extreme youth poverty and homelessness, to becoming one of the most read Aboriginal social commentators in Australia. Published with the Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian, he now writes exclusively for the Koori Mail, Australia's longest running independent national Indigenous newspaper.
Who should attend: Leaders and aspiring/emerging leaders in education. School leadership teams are encouraged to attend, and breakfasts are a fantastic way to reward high performing staff.
Cost: (GST Inclusive)
Members: Attend in person - $60.50 (includes breakfast) / Leadership Breakfasts: Attend online - $33.00 per person
Non-Members: Attend in person - $82.50 (includes breakfast) / Leadership Breakfasts: Attend online - $44.00 per person
Group discount: Register a team of 5 or more and receive one free registration!
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RSVP
RSVP on or before Wednesday 25 May 2022 19.26 pm, by email pdn@griffith.edu.au , or by phone +61 7 3735 5626 , or via https://www.griffith.edu.au/arts-education-law/school-education-professional-studies/opportunities/professional-development-network/upcoming-events