At Curtin’s School of Education 2018 Awards Night in late May, Clarke was presented with the Miles Medal Award, for ...
Clarke's remote Wiluna posting the perfect career choice
Recent Curtin University graduate Adam Clarke has a passion for Indigenous education. The first-year-out’s enthusiasm jumps down the phone line as he talks about his life at Wiluna Remote Community School on the edge of the Western Desert, 950kms north east of Perth.
Award-winning young educator Adam Clarke, second from right, says “I just fell in love with the place [Wiluna], the kids, the on-country learning and how engaged the parents were and family members and elders".
Award-winning young educator Adam Clarke, second from right, says “I just fell in love with the place [Wiluna], the kids, the on-country learning and how engaged the parents were and family members and elders".
The high school boys at Wiluna made a rap song and music video about experiencing on-country learning. "This was a great literacy and geography activity, incorporating two-way science and learning out on country," Clarke says.
This story appeared in the July 2018 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
