THE Boomerang Bus is coming to Noosa this weekend, with the bus pulling into the Sunspace Cafe, Doonan, on Saturday 22 August from 12noon.
The Boomerang Bus is an initiative of SevGen, which is short for seven generations and is an Indigenous way of thinking that says we must consider our actions and deliberations of today that will affect people seven generations into the future.
The Boomerang Bus provides an opportunity for schools and teachers to make a difference to educational outcomes in a different way.
SevGen’s Terri Waller said the bus aimed to make a difference to educational outcomes in a creative way, focusing on a method to help embed Indigenous Perspectives (EIP) in school curriculums.
“After speaking with teachers about the slow results of the Education QLD imperative in 2009 to embed Indigenous Perspectives in the curriculum we identified three key barriers that were the issue,” she said.
“With this in mind we developed the Boomerang Bus; an Indigenous initiative that focuses on these barriers. This should speed things up.”
The launch on Saturday will be a gathering with a focus on sharing resources the Boomerang Bus has gathered as well as inform attendees of the methodology the SevGen team believes is going to make a difference.
“From this gathering we are hoping to identify teachers who are passionate about EIP and form an alumni of lead teachers who will lead the way forward supported by the Boomerang Bus,” Terri said.
“SevGen believes there is a different way to be educated or ‘grown up’ in a loving, living, laughing, listening and learning place through playing autonomously in passion and purpose always.
“We hold the space for you to discover your passion and give you space to practice mastery of that passion resulting in enjoyable, effortless learning.”
