Professional Development: Exploring Indigenous Perspectives in Education with Brooke Wandin (Wurundjeri)

This professional learning workshop provides educators with the opportunity to deepen their understanding through exploring Indigenous perspectives in early learning and primary education settings. Led by Wurundjeri woman, artist, language worker and educator Brooke Wandin, the session centres First Nations knowledge, cultural practice and lived experience.

Designed for Early Learning educators and Primary teachers working with Prep to Year 2 students, the workshop explores cultural content, language, and knowledge systems through both discussion and hands-on activities. Participants will take part in interactive hands-on activities, offering practical approaches that can be translated into classroom settings.

The session supports educators to approach Indigenous perspectives with cultural respect, accuracy and confidence, while reinforcing the importance of language, Country and relational learning. This workshop will explore outcomes from the previous Embedding Indigenous Perspectives in Education with Brooke Wandin session and will be appropriate for new attendees. The workshop has limited capacity in order to support meaningful engagement and discussion.

10-10.30am – Registration
10.30am-12.30pm – Event program
12.30-1.00pm – Lunch

Morning tea and light lunch refreshments are included.

Brooke Wandin is a Wurundjeri woman, language worker, artist and educator. In 2022, Brooke was a State Library of Victoria Indigenous Victorian Aboriginal Cultural Research Fellow. During that time she grew and expanded a database of Woiwurrung from archives and manuscripts in their collection. `Through her art practice, Brooke transforms archival material into creative illuminations. Recent exhibitions include Emu Sky, University of Melbourne, 2022, and The Soils Project, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, 2023, and Soils, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2024. 

Brooke teaches regularly at Healesville Primary School, sharing both ancient and more recent histories. Her most treasured time is teaching language to her family at Coranderrk.