Indigenous Mentoring Experience Analysis

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A simple scheme and dedication of volunteers is helping to improve the futures of young Indigenous Australians throughout the country. Education is the key to imbuing a sense of community and respect throughout people that are Indigenous and non-Indigenous (Jacobs, 2007).

“Our message was that Indigenous equals success. We wouldn't settle for any less” (Manning Bancroft, 2017a). This is the message from Jack Manning Bancroft, founder and CEO of Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME). He empowers through education. Manning Bancroft, born 20th of June 1985 into the Bundjalung tribe in NSW, wants Australia to “imagine what is possible”. In the eyes of Manning Bancroft, we are all equal. However in 2005, Manning Bancroft, age 19, …show more content…

A place where they feel equal to learn, to play and to enjoy themselves. From there, the rest will follow. Learning and observing how young Indigenous students learn and socialise, places a greater understanding to myself of how to teach them. Content driven alone would be changed for Indigenous students as their upbringings at home and in communities are different from mine. I would changed it to allow them to feel secure in the environment and the information they are learning that can be achieved at their level and pace without any sensitive information in content areas. Knowing my students and how they learn will help me to enable an informed position to foster leaning. The content and learning involved would be positioned to be multi-model, meaningful …show more content…

He identifies himself as an Aboriginal man, however has the appearance of a white man. Through this Manning Bancroft has always seen both sides. Being told what he can and cannot be. All of this through the power of social media. Manning Bancroft explains in a memoir by himself that our human interactions and perceptions of one another are fuelled by the internet (Manning Bancroft, 2017b). He argues that social media has created a new social class. One of new powers. Powers that are obtained from our data that categorises against everyone. The argument Manning Bancroft is presenting is experienced by not only him but also Indigenous school students. Social media is our main source of information and one that defines us; more so the stereotypes of Indigenous Australians. Manning Bancroft was subjected by his race through social media before people had met him. He had a ‘stamp’ planted on him from our phone screens and televisions. The same thing that is continuing today. Indigenous students have a feeling of lack of identity through this as they feel constructed to something that are not (Kervin, McMahon, O’Shea & Harwood, 2014).

In conclusion, what Jack Manning Bancroft has created with AIME and the respect building between mentors and mentees in such little time is extraordinary. The gap between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities are starting

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