Kulbardi Aboriginal Centre's Vision and Values

Our Vision

Kulbardi Aboriginal Centre will be Western Australia’s leading provider of :

• Indigenous pathways into university that take a wholistic approach for student wellbeing, inter-cultural and academic development and     cultural safety.
• Undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Australian Indigenous Studies providing transformative and intercultural learning experiences that empower students to be self reflexive agents of change.
• Scholarly Indigenous and Indigenist research.
• Multimedia services specializing in Indigenous content.

Our Values

The values that embody the Kulbardi Aboriginal Centre are:

• Intellectual enquiry that values the importance of local Indigenous knowledges and their contribution to collaborative local and global discovery.
• Scholarship underpinned by the importance of Indigenous and Indigenist research principles, a commitment to decolonize knowledges on and about Indigenous people and of interdisciplinarity.
• Innovative and creative teaching and learning guided by intercultural pedagogical practices, principles of critical reflection and independent enquiry.
• International collaboration between Indigenous people and knowledges that draw on commonalities of experience.
• Social Justice as an ongoing process of careful listening, respectful consideration and informed action.
• Culturally secure and professional learning milieu and work environment.