Part B – Discipline specific material

This section is a series of articles related to specific disciplines which have requested support in finding relevant material. We are interested in hearing of areas you want help in providing material for students, or ideas you have that can be shared with others.

The aim of these resources is to provide both assessment approaches and learning material that will enhance the understanding of First Nations approaches to knowledge gathering and knowledge sharing. While it is hard to slot First Nations knowledge into a discipline, we have found it informative to start a chapter on an area and follow the progress of the topic through many other disciplines, illustrating how knowledge is tied together across the areas.

When these are used in class, the assessments are designed to encourage students and practitioners to look beyond their discipline and the project boundaries to consider the impact on other areas. Also we expect that the reader will change not just their understanding, but their ways of thinking about engineering.