Download - How can the streets of Myanmar and Mount Isa help us to ... · Links to the homelessness issue in Australia •Homelessness growing worse in Australia, census data shows. By Joanna

tobetterunderstandhomelessness?

MountIsa:• 820kmwestofTownsville,160kmfromtheNorthernTerritoryborder,350kmsouth

oftheGulfofCarpentaria• SituatedonthetraditionallandsoftheKalkadoonpeople- 'theeliteoftheAboriginal

warriorsofQueensland’• 1884over200massacredat"BattleMountain"bysettlersandpolice

HowcanthestreetsofMyanmarandMountIsahelpustobetterunderstandhomelessness?

FirstStrategy:SeeThinkWonderwww.pz.harvard.edu/projects/visible-thinking

1. Whatdoyouseeobserve,noticeasyouwatchthe

film?

2. Whatdoyouthink isgoingon

inthefilm?

3. Whatdoesthefilmmakeyou

wonder?

Source:‘Lifeasastreetkid:Thura's story’(2mins)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTEwEaPtuN0ChildFund Australia,Publishedon20Aug2014.

SecondStrategy:CircleOfViewpointsRoutinehttp:www.visiblethinkingpz.org

Brainstormalistofdifferentperspectivesandthenusethisscriptskeletonto

exploreeachone:

IAMTHINKINGOF…homelessnessinMtIsa...FROMTHEPOINTOFVIEWOF...the

viewpointyou’vechosen

ITHINK...describethetopicfromyourviewpoint.Beanactor--takeonthe

characterofyourviewpoint

AQUESTIONIHAVEFROMTHISVIEWPOINTIS...askaquestionfromthis

viewpoint

StoriesfromMtIsaSixshortfilmscreatedbyCentaCareandJETZAk abouthomelessnessinMt.Isa.

TERRY - youngindigenousmanUNCLECLIVE - respectedelderMICK – localtruckdriverCHRIS - teamleaderatCentacareCLAUDINE – soupkitchenvolunteerCAROL – nolongerhomeless

https://vimeo.com/channels/homelessness/videos

ThirdStrategy:ConnectExtendChallengehttp:www.visiblethinkingpz.org

1. HowistheinformationpresentedintheimageCONNECTED towhatyoualreadyknow?

2. WhatnewideasdoyougetthatEXTEND orpushyourthinkinginnewdirections?

3. WhatisstillCHALLENGING orconfusingforyoutogetyourmindaround?Whatquestions doyounowhaveabouthomelessnessinMtIsa?

Source:Macintrye,E.(2017,April4).YPAhostscookoffforyouthweekinMtIsa.TheNorthWestStar.

LinkstothehomelessnessissueinAustralia• HomelessnessgrowingworseinAustralia,censusdatashows.ByJoannaCrothers.Updated14Mar2018,5:45pm

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-14/homelessness-in-australia-jumps-14pc-over-five-year-period/9547786

• Thinktherearenohomelesspeopleinyourarea?Thinkagain.InteractiveDigitalStorytellingteamByCatherineHanrahan.Updated21Mar2018,9:58am

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/homelessness-mapped-australia-by-suburb/9551556

• Sleepingroughisnotourpath.Tyrena Punjaub knowsplentyofhomelessteenagersinMountIsa. 11April 2013,6:56pm

http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2013/04/11/3735184.htm?site=northwest

• YPAhostscookoffforyouthweekinMountIsa.4April2017,12:41pmhttps://www.northweststar.com.au/story/4576611/youth-week-gets-cookin/