Cultural Competence resources for educators: Initiatives

The National Centre for Cultural Competence (NCCC) has tools and resources to support your institution and organisation's journey through cultural competence.

This course explores key themes and capabilities of cultural competence by exploring Aboriginal experiences and narratives of Sydney.

The NCCC Youtube channel hosts a range of lectures and videos from their events.

The Cultural Competence Program (CCP) is an online training course aimed at building capability around cultural diversity in the workplace. It features engaging multimedia learning modules and a wealth of resources.

The National Centre for Cultural Competence (NCCC) is developing and integrating cultural competence through innovative learning, teaching, research and engagement.

The 2016-2020 University of Sydney strategic plan is committed to embedding cultural competence into teaching, student experience, research and the University ‘culture’. To support the University in its journey towards cultural competence, the NCCC works collaboratively to inform, inspire, and provide the resources needed to embed cultural competence across the University.

This unit examines the meaning of culture and cultural competence; it also examines social and emotional wellbeing in a cultural competence context as well as identity formation, worldview, socialisation. The unit explores the importance of building cultural competence capabilities to recognise and address racism.

Charles Sturt Indigenous education strategy

Indigenous Cultural Competency (ICC) LibGuide.

Led by Edith Cowan University, this project includes The Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health, Curtin University of Technology, The University of Notre Dame, The University of Western Australia and Health Consumers’ Council (WA).

Alanna Raymond explains cultural competency in the context of education, and suggests practical ways teachers and schools can build cultural competence.

The centre runs key events to enrich cultural competence education. Keep up to date with the latest news and events on cultural competence.

This series is an initiative to raise awareness of the indigenous culture and foster dialogue between staff, students and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within the Faculty of Science. In 2018, our guest presenters are from the area of Australian native plants, Aboriginal participation in STEM subjects and astronomy and navigation of Aboriginal people.

This framework is a joint project undertaken by Universities Australia and the Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council with funding provided by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

The Lowitja Institute provides international discussion on the meaning, complexity and concepts of knowledge exchange, knowledge translation and other related terms, which is making an important contribution to how we do research.

Reconciliation NSW partners with The Centre for Cultural Competence Australia (CCCA), which specialises in online Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural competence training. Courses are foundation-level, non-confrontational, and self-paced.