Bangerang Cultural Centre Essay

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In 1982 Shepparton Arts group in collaboration with the Bangerang community built the first cultural “keeping place/museum’ called Bangerang Cultural Centre. The Bangerang people who run this centre are also part of the Yorta Yorta language in the Murray Goulburn region. Furthermore, the Bangerang centre houses a collection of Aboriginal artefacts and artworks from different Aboriginal communities from across Australia mainly focusing on the Murray Goulburn region. The centre still offers tours and dreamtime yarns to the public and schools (Bangerang, 2009). A guided tour of the centre allows for experience of discovery of Aboriginal history for children and adults to explore and be able to visualise history through life size diorama displays. Each one of the displays depicts different aspects of Aboriginal people participating in trade, Family gatherings’, hunting as well as many other communal activities to discover. With the assistance of a guided tour, by a member from the Bangerang community, the children and adults, will be taken on a journey throughout the building yarning about each of dioramas and their …show more content…

By exploring the culture, heritage, backgrounds, and traditions of the Aboriginal people within their community (DEEWR, 2010, p. 27), the EYLF supports children in making connections and provides continuity between the learning experiences in different settings such as the Bangerang Cultural Centre. The children are provided with the opportunity to make connections with the past and the present, with the emphasis on learning in a more meaningful way, increasing their feeling belonging and deepening their connection within their wider community (DEEWR, 2010, p.

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