PR E PA R ATORY S C HO OL
The
Dookoorniny
project
What if we disintegrated the curriculum
and facilitated students to take part in
an action-learning project that forced
them to work at the upper levels of
Bloom’s Taxonomy?
What if the stimulus materials were the
stories of the Wadjuk Noongar people,
and the Arts were the catalyst for the
responses?
What if we made the students perform
the results, to ensure the validity of the
project?
Thus the ‘Dookoorniny’ project was
born.
Between 14 and 19 September Mr Barry
McGuire immersed Year 5 and 6 students
into the stories and cultures of the Wadjuk
Noongar peoples. During this time the