Program aims at needs of indigenous students
Justine Ferrari; 14/5/08
In keeping with the Government’s commitment to ensure the basics are right, the main strategy for halving the gap in school performance between indigenous and non-indigenous students is a $56.4 million program to expand the delivery of intensive literacy and numeracy programs.
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New links to precious past
Stephen Matchett;14/5/08
Michael Christie wants to use the ephemeral to capture the eternal. The Darwin-based academic is researching how online technologies can help indigenous Australians record and communicate their knowledge in ways that suit their culture and physical environment rather than the way others shape and store experience and information to suit these digital days. “Aboriginal knowledge in Arnhem Land is alive and well, but there is pressure to commodify it, to turn knowledge into facts which don’t need the custodians to keep them alive,” DrChristie tells the HES. The associate professor of education at Charles Darwin University has just won a $330,000 senior fellowship from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (better known under its original name, the Carrick Institute) to propose ways for Aboriginal elders living distant from campus-based university programs to teach courses.
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Tags: Aboriginal, Australia, Culture, Education