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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Video, Leo Papademetre, Consider language and culture teaching teachers' practice, perspectives, reflections, 2000
... Consider language and culture teaching teachers' practice...language and culture teaching... and culture teaching.... teaching language multicultural education language and culture ...Video on education using the practice of language and culture teaching.videocassettepitjantjatjara, language studies, teaching language, multicultural education, language and culture teaching -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Anthony J Liddicoat, Teaching languages, teaching cultures, 2000
... core ILT offers an approach to teaching culture.... At its core ILT offers an approach to teaching culture ...Intercultural Language Teaching (ILT) is now making its way as the emerging new approach to language teaching. At its core ILT offers an approach to teaching culture as an integrated part of language and this has several implications for language teaching pedagogy and practice.diagrams, b&w illustrations, word listsglobalisation and language, second language learning, sociolinguistics -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Joseph Lo Bianco, Teaching invisible culture : classroom practice and theory, 2003
... Teaching invisible culture : classroom practice and theory... the teaching of culture in language use, while at the same time... the teaching of culture in language use, while at the same time ...All language educators are aware that culture is a vitally important reason for teaching languages. All curriculum statements for languages contain strong references to the importance of culture. We need to offer accessible cultural input to initiate the teaching of culture in language use, while at the same time not simplifying or stereotyping the community that speaks the language we are teaching. This book takes up these important questions and places in the hands of teachers well researched but very practical guidance, advice, resources and information on teaching culture in language. In this book you will find a discussion of what researchers, and classroom teachers, think and do about culture in language education and you will find a rich array of practical resources and advice for enhancing classroom practice. Specific languages addressed are: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and English as a Second Language. Preface /? Joseph Lo Bianco 1. Common themes /? Joseph Lo Bianco 2. Culture: visible, invisible and multiple /? Joseph Lo Bianco 3. A conceptual framework to help teachers identify where culture is located in language use /? Chantal Crozet 4. Chinese /? Li Kaining 5. How can we make Australian English meaningful to ESL learners? /? Anne-Marie Barraja-Rohan 6. Teaching French and culture in language use /? Chantal Crozet and Louise Maurer 7. Are Germans rude or just doing things differently? Understanding and teaching language and culture /? Winfried Thielmann 8. Face value: teaching Italian verbal and social-cultural interaction /? Piera Carroli, Adriana Pavone, Vincenza Tudini 9. The teaching of culture in Japanese /? Miyuki Toyoda and Shunichi Ishihara.diagrams, word listsculture theory, australian english, esl, language and culture, english as a second language -
Ithacan Historical Society
Photograph, Greek School, Melbourne, 1930s
The Greek Orthodox Community with the support of the Ithacan Community in Melbourne established a Greek Language School in the early 1930s. The teaching of the Greek language to the Australian born children of Greek parents ensured that the language and culture was maintained within the Greek community. A sepia photograph mounted on grey board of the children and teachers at the Greek language school. The people are standing and seated in five rows in front of a stage. -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Periodical, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australian Aboriginal studies : journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2010
'Whose Ethics?':Codifying and enacting ethics in research settings Bringing ethics up to date? A review of the AIATSIS ethical guidelines Michael Davis (Independent Academic) A revision of the AIATSIS Guidelines for Ethical Research in Indigenous Studies was carried out during 2009-10. The purpose of the revision was to bring the Guidelines up to date in light of a range of critical developments that have occurred in Indigenous rights, research and knowledge management since the previous version of the Guidelines was released in 2000. In this paper I present an outline of these developments, and briefly discuss the review process. I argue that the review, and the developments that it responded to, have highlighted that ethical research needs to be thought about more as a type of behaviour and practice between engaged participants, and less as an institutionalised, document-focused and prescriptive approach. The arrogance of ethnography: Managing anthropological research knowledge Sarah Holcombe (ANU) The ethnographic method is a core feature of anthropological practice. This locally intensive research enables insight into local praxis and culturally relative practices that would otherwise not be possible. Indeed, empathetic engagement is only possible in this close and intimate encounter. However, this paper argues that this method can also provide the practitioner with a false sense of his or her own knowing and expertise and, indeed, with arrogance. And the boundaries between the anthropologist as knowledge sink - cultural translator and interpreter - and the knowledge of the local knowledge owners can become opaque. Globalisation and the knowledge ?commons?, exemplified by Google, also highlight the increasing complexities in this area of the governance and ownership of knowledge. Our stronghold of working in remote areas and/or with marginalised groups places us at the forefront of negotiating the multiple new technological knowledge spaces that are opening up in the form of Indigenous websites and knowledge centres in these areas. Anthropology is not immune from the increasing awareness of the limitations and risks of the intellectual property regime for protecting or managing Indigenous knowledge. The relevance of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in opening up a ?rights-based? discourse, especially in the area of knowledge ownership, brings these issues to the fore. For anthropology to remain relevant, we have to engage locally with these global discourses. This paper begins to traverse some of this ground. Protocols: Devices for translating moralities, controlling knowledge and defining actors in Indigenous research, and critical ethical reflection Margaret Raven (Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy (ISTP), Murdoch University) Protocols are devices that act to assist with ethical research behaviour in Indigenous research contexts. Protocols also attempt to play a mediating role in the power and control inherent in research. While the development of bureaucratically derived protocols is on the increase, critiques and review of protocols have been undertaken in an ad hoc manner and in the absence of an overarching ethical framework or standard. Additionally, actors implicated in research networks are seldom theorised. This paper sketches out a typology of research characters and the different moral positioning that each of them plays in the research game. It argues that by understanding the ways actors enact research protocols we are better able to understand what protocols are, and how they seek to build ethical research practices. Ethics and research: Dilemmas raised in managing research collections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander materials Grace Koch (AIATSIS) This paper examines some of the ethical dilemmas for the proper management of research collections of Indigenous cultural materials, concentrating upon the use of such material for Native Title purposes. It refers directly to a number of points in the draft of the revised AIATSIS Guidelines for Ethical Research in Indigenous Studies and draws upon both actual and hypothetical examples of issues that may arise when requests are made for Indigenous material. Specific concerns about ethical practices in collecting data and the subsequent control of access to both the data itself and to published works based upon it are raised within the context of several types of collections, including those held by AIATSIS and by Native Title Representative Bodies. Ethics or social justice? Heritage and the politics of recognition Laurajane Smith (ANU) Nancy Fraser?s model of the politics of recognition is used to examine how ethical practices are interconnected with wider struggles for recognition and social justice. This paper focuses on the concept of 'heritage' and the way it is often uncritically linked to 'identity' to illustrate how expert knowledge can become implicated in struggles for recognition. The consequences of this for ethical practice and for rethinking the role of expertise, professional discourses and disciplinary identity are discussed. The ethics of teaching from country Michael Christie (CDU), with the assistance of Yi?iya Guyula, Kathy Gotha and Dh�?gal Gurruwiwi The 'Teaching from Country' program provided the opportunity and the funding for Yol?u (north-east Arnhem Land Aboriginal) knowledge authorities to participate actively in the academic teaching of their languages and cultures from their remote homeland centres using new digital technologies. As two knowledge systems and their practices came to work together, so too did two divergent epistemologies and metaphysics, and challenges to our understandings of our ethical behaviour. This paper uses an examination of the philosophical and pedagogical work of the Yol?u Elders and their students to reflect upon ethical teaching and research in postcolonial knowledge practices. Closing the gaps in and through Indigenous health research: Guidelines, processes and practices Pat Dudgeon (UWA), Kerrie Kelly (Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association) and Roz Walker (UWA) Research in Aboriginal contexts remains a vexed issue given the ongoing inequities and injustices in Indigenous health. It is widely accepted that good research providing a sound evidence base is critical to closing the gap in Aboriginal health and wellbeing outcomes. However, key contemporary research issues still remain regarding how that research is prioritised, carried out, disseminated and translated so that Aboriginal people are the main beneficiaries of the research in every sense. It is widely acknowledged that, historically, research on Indigenous groups by non-Indigenous researchers has benefited the careers and reputations of researchers, often with little benefit and considerably more harm for Indigenous peoples in Australia and internationally. This paper argues that genuine collaborative and equal partnerships in Indigenous health research are critical to enable Aboriginal and Torres Islander people to determine the solutions to close the gap on many contemporary health issues. It suggests that greater recognition of research methodologies, such as community participatory action research, is necessary to ensure that Aboriginal people have control of, or significant input into, determining the Indigenous health research agenda at all levels. This can occur at a national level, such as through the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Road Map on Indigenous research priorities (RAWG 2002), and at a local level through the development of structural mechanisms and processes, including research ethics committees? research protocols to hold researchers accountable to the NHMRC ethical guidelines and values which recognise Indigenous culture in all aspects of research. Researching on Ngarrindjeri Ruwe/Ruwar: Methodologies for positive transformation Steve Hemming (Flinders University) , Daryle Rigney (Flinders University) and Shaun Berg (Berg Lawyers) Ngarrindjeri engagement with cultural and natural resource management over the past decade provides a useful case study for examining the relationship between research, colonialism and improved Indigenous wellbeing. The Ngarrindjeri nation is located in south-eastern Australia, a ?white? space framed by Aboriginalist myths of cultural extinction recycled through burgeoning heritage, Native Title, natural resource management ?industries?. Research is a central element of this network of intrusive interests and colonising practices. Government management regimes such as natural resource management draw upon the research and business sectors to form complex alliances to access funds to support their research, monitoring, policy development, management and on-ground works programs. We argue that understanding the political and ethical location of research in this contemporary management landscape is crucial to any assessment of the potential positive contribution of research to 'Bridging the Gap' or improving Indigenous wellbeing. Recognition that research conducted on Ngarrindjeri Ruwe/Ruwar (country/body/spirit) has impacts on Ngarrindjeri and that Ngarrindjeri have a right and responsibility to care for their lands and waters are important platforms for any just or ethical research. Ngarrindjeri have linked these rights and responsibilities to long-term community development focused on Ngarrindjeri capacity building and shifts in Ngarrindjeri power in programs designed to research and manage Ngarrindjeri Ruwe/Ruwar. Research agreements that protect Ngarrindjeri interests, including cultural knowledge and intellectual property, are crucial elements in these shifts in power. A preliminary review of ethics resources, with particular focus on those available online from Indigenous organisations in WA, NT and Qld Sarah Holcombe (ANU) and Natalia Gould (La Trobe University) In light of a growing interest in Indigenous knowledge, this preliminary review maps the forms and contents of some existing resources and processes currently available and under development in the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia, along with those enacted through several cross-jurisdictional initiatives. A significant majority of ethics resources have been developed in response to a growing interest in the application of Indigenous knowledge in land and natural resource management. The aim of these resources is to ?manage? (i.e. protect and maintain) Indigenous knowledge by ensuring ethical engagement with the knowledge holders. Case studies are drawn on from each jurisdiction to illustrate both the diversity and commonality in the approach to managing this intercultural engagement. Such resources include protocols, guidelines, memorandums of understanding, research agreements and strategic plans. In conducting this review we encourage greater awareness of the range of approaches in practice and under development today, while emphasising that systematic, localised processes for establishing these mechanisms is of fundamental importance to ensuring equitable collaboration. Likewise, making available a range of ethics tools and resources also enables the sharing of the local and regional initiatives in this very dynamic area of Indigenous knowledge rights.b&w photographs, colour photographsngarrindjeri, ethics, ethnography, indigenous research, social justice, indigenous health -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Conference proceedings, Jon Reyhner, Nurturing native languages, 2003
Section I: Language and Culture Immersion 1. Native Language Immersion /? Jon Reyhner 2. Assessing the Impact of Total Immersion on Cherokee Language Revitalization: A Culturally Responsive, Participatory Approach /? Lizette Peter with Ella Christie, Marilyn Cochran, Dora Dunn, Lula Elk, Ed Fields, JoAnn Fields, Tracy Hirata-Edds, Anna Huckaby, Margaret Raymond, Deputy Chief Hastings Shade, Gloria Sly, George Wickliffe, Akira Yamamoto 3. Situational Navajo: A School-Based, Verb-Centered Way of Teaching Navajo /? Wayne Holm, Irene Silentman, Laura Wallace Section II: Technology Sustaining Indigenous Languages in Cyberspace /? Courtney B. Cazden 5. Saving a Language with Computers, Tape Recorders, and Radio /? Ruth Bennett Section III: Other Issues 6. How To Teach When the Teacher Isn't Fluent /? Leanne Hinton 7. Preparing Indigenous Language Advocates, Teachers, and Researchers in Western Canada /? Heather A. Blair, Donna Paskemin, Barbara Laderoute 8. Whaia Te Reo: Pursuing the Language': How Metaphors Describe - Our Relationships with Indigenous Languages /? Jeanette King 9. Honoring the Elders /? Evangeline Parsons-Yazzie, Robert N. St. Clair 10.Spanish: A Language of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas /? Florencia Riegelhaupt, Roberto Carrasco, Elizabeth Brandt 11. Keresan Pueblo Indian Sign Language /? Walter P. Kelley, Tony L. McGregor 12. Oral History Shares the Wealth of a Navajo Community /? Sara L. Begay, Mary Jimmie, Louise Lockard 13. Mothertongue: Incorporating Theatre of the Oppressed into Language Restoration Movements /? Qwo-Li Driskill 14. Missionaries and American Indian Languages /? Evangeline Parsons Yazzie Biographical Information on the Authors.tables, b&w illustrationsnavajo, cherokee, indian sign language, bilingual education, indigenous language teaching, native language immersion, language and technology -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
DVD, Sandy Osawa - Makah et al, Myaamiaki eemamwiciki : Miami awakening, 2008
Myaamiaki eemamwicikia is a comprehensive look at the language and culture revitalization efforts of the Miami Tribe. The documentary captures moments of transition, as myaamia people gain traditional knowledge and share it within their homes and communities. Myaamiaki eemamwicikia features interviews with community elders, families, youth, and tribal educators as the Miami Tribe continue to reclaim their heritage and rebuild as a community"--Container. Explores summer workshops, home teaching, and the Myaamia Project for Language Revitalization which illustrates the interrelationship of the tribe with Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.miami tribe, language revival, oral histories -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Leanne Hinton, The green book of Language revitalization in practice, 2008
1. Language Revitalization: An Overview /? Leanne Hinton 2. Diversity in Local Language Maintenance and Restoration: A Reason For Optimism /? Anna Ash, Jessie Little Doe Fermino and Ken Hale 3. Federal Language Policy and Indigenous Languages in the United States /? Leanne Hinton 4. "... To Help Assure the Survival and Continuing Vitality of Native American Languages" /? Robert D. Arnold 5. Language Planning /? Leanne Hinton Introduction to the Pueblo Languages /? Leanne Hinton 6. Native Language Planning: A Pilot Process in the Acoma Pueblo Community /? Christine P. Sims 7. The Key To Cultural Survival: Language Planning and Revitalization in the Pueblo de Cochiti /? Regis Pecos and Rebecca Blum-Martinez The Navajo Language: I /? Ken Hale 8. Navajo Head Start Language Study /? Paul R. Platero 9. Introduction to Revitalization of National Indigenous Languages /? Leanne Hinton Introduction to the Welsh Language /? Leanne Hinton 10. Welsh: A European Case of Language Maintenance /? Gerald Morgan Introduction to the Maori Language /? Ken Hale 11. Te Kohanga Reo: Maori Language Revitalization /? Jeanette King An Introduction to the Hawaiian Language /? Leanne Hinton 12. The Movement to Revitalize Hawaiian Language and Culture /? Sam L. No'Eau Warner 13. "Mai Loko Mai O Ka 'I'ini: Proceeding from a Dream": The 'Aha Punana Leo Connection in Hawaiian Language Revitalization /? William H. Wilson and Kauanoe Kamana 14. Teaching Methods /? Leanne Hinton The Karuk Language /? Leanne Hinton 15. Teaching Well, Learning Quickly: Communication-Based Language Instruction /? Terry Supahan and Sarah E. Supahan The Navajo Language: II /? Ken Hale 16. Tsehootsooidi Olta'gi Dine Bizaad Bihoo'aah: A Navajo Immersion Program at Fort Defiance, Arizona /? Marie Arviso and Wayne Holm 17. The Master-Apprentice Language Learning Program /? Leanne Hinton 18. Linguistic Aspects of Language Teaching and Learning in Immersion Contexts /? Ken Hale 19. New Writing Systems /? Leanne Hinton An Introduction to Paiute /? Leanne Hinton and Ken Hale 20. Language Revitalization in the San Juan Paiute Community and the Role of a Paiute Constitution /? Pamela Bunte and Robert Franklin 21. Audio-Video Documentation /? Leanne Hinton Australian Languages /? Ken Hale 22. Strict Locality in Local Language Media: An Australian Example /? Ken Hale The Arapaho Language /? Ken Hale 23. Reflections on the Arapaho Language Project, or When Bambi Spoke Arapaho and Other Tales of Arapaho Language Revitalization Efforts /? Stephen Greymorning Irish /? Ken Hale 24. Continuity and Vitality: Expanding Domains through Irish-Language Radio /? Colleen Cotter The Mono Language /? Ken Hale 25. On Using Multimedia in Language Renewal: Observations from Making the CD-ROM Taitaduhaan /? Paul V. Kroskrity and Jennifer F. Reynolds 26. Can the Web Help Save My Language? /? Laura Buszard-Welcher 27. Training People to Teach Their Language /? Leanne Hinton Inuttut and Innu-aimun /? Ken Hale 28. The Role of the University in the Training of Native Language Teachers: Labrador /? Alana Johns and Irene Mazurkewich Languages of Arizona, Southern California, and Oklahoma /? Leanne Hinton 29. Indigenous Educators as Change Agents: Case Studies of Two Language Institutes /? Teresa L. McCarty, Lucille J. Watahomigie and Akira Y. Yamamoto /? [et al.] The Navajo Language: III /? Ken Hale 30. Promoting Advanced Navajo Language Scholarship /? Clay Slate 31. Sleeping Languages: Can They Be Awakened? /? Leanne Hinton 32. The Use of Linguistic Archives in Language Revitalization: The Native California Language Restoration Workshop /? Leanne Hinton The Ohlone Languages /? Leanne Hinton 33. New Life for a Lost Language /? Linda Yamane.Maps, b&w photographs, tables, word listslanguage policy, language planning, language maintenance, language revitalization, language immersion, language literacy, media and technology, language education and training, sleeping languages, navajo, arapaho -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Lynnette Dent, Koorie studies : Koorie and non-Koorie teaching and learning together : teachers resource book 1, 1993
... and teaching Dreaming stories Koorie law Koorie culture teaching ...Teachers? Resource Book produced for the Ganai language, with units of work, word lists, etc, includes Overview, The Dreaming, Social Organisation, Language and Food, Koories Today, Curriculum Areas, Excursions to Koorie sites, Resources.maps, b&w illustrations, b&w photographsgunai, ganai, kurnai gippsland, study and teaching, dreaming stories, koorie law, koorie culture, teaching resources -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Education Department of South Australia, Aboriginal studies R-12. Years R-3., Home, 1988
... teaching Aboriginal culture... studies teaching Aboriginal culture photographs, illustrations ...This unit is one of eleven making up the R-7 Aboriginal studies course, developed to meet the needs of students, teachers and Aboriginal people. It contains a course outline, cultural and historical information and activities.photographs, illustrations, mapsprimary school education, aboriginal studies, teaching aboriginal culture -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Kevin Keeffe, From the centre to the city : Aboriginal education, culture and power, 1992
This book is about the directions being taken in Australia to develop an Aboriginal curriculum in schools. Kevin Keeffe describes, analyses and criticises the meaning and place of Aboriginal culture in the Australian curriculum.b&w photographs, b&w illustrations, colour illustrationseducation, study and teaching, curriculum development -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Alexandra Blaszak, Wurrung Wurrung Victorian Aboriginal languages resource kit, 2008
The Wurrung Wurrung Kit is designed to introduce students at all levels to the heritage of Aboriginal languages within the area now known as Victoria. The kit aims to: Create awareness of Victorian Aboriginal languages in the past and present. The kit is not designed for the teaching of languages, Develop students' understanding of the relationship between the languages and culture of Victorian Indigenous people, or Koories, Create awareness of the importance of language to indigenous communities today and to foster respect for these communities and their languages, Highlight the diversity within Aboriginal Victoria and Australia in terms of languages and culture, Provide resources for students and teachers that can be used either as a window into Aboriginal culture generally, or to complement a broader unit of work in indigenous studies. Resources for teachers Purpose of this kit Using this kit Terminology Pronunciation Facts about Aboriginal languages in Victoria Language and Aboriginal culture Revitalizatoin of Aboriginal languages Language Alive in the community Community protocols Understanding the Language Map VELS and Curriculum links Teaching Framework Resources and contacts Activities for students Animal names Colouring in Possum Koala Kangaroo Code breaker What do yo know? Concentration Sounds, spellings and symbols Kinship Different things, different words Koorie Garden Timeline Story of Victorian Languages Language on the Mission Role Play Traditional Owners Placenames Graffiti Wall Map References.maps, b&w photographs, b&w illustrations, colour illustrations, games, referenceswoiwurrung, boonwurrung, gunnai kurnai, djadjawurrung, wathaurong, keerraywoorroong, jardwadjali, wergaia, ladjiladji, taungurung, dhudhuroa, kulin -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia, Australia's Indigenous languages in practice, 1996
Based on the Australian Indigenous Languages Framework.b&w illustrations, tables, word lists, sample programs and examination paperskaurna, pitjantjatjara, yankunytjatjara, antikirinya, yolgnu, pilbara, language and culture, bilingual education, linguistics, language and technology, teaching programs, -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Rosalind Berry et al, Making the jump : a resource book for teachers of Aboriginal students, 1997
The focus of Making the Jump is the acceptance of Aboriginal students' home language, and the use of that language as a jumping off point for teaching Standard Australian English. It is a valuable classroom resource for teachers working with students whose home language is Kriol or Aboriginal English. Ch. 1. First impressions Ch. 2. Cultures in the classroom Ch. 3. Understanding the languages Ch. 4. Separating the languages Ch. 5. SAE- Planning and practice Ch. 6. Discovering the differences Ch. 7. Games.B&w illustrations, diagrams, gamesbilingual education, catholic school education, linguistics and education -
Koorie Heritage Trust
Book, Blazak, Alexandra, Wurrung wurrung Victorian Aboriginal Languages Resource Kit, 2008
A resource kit for teachers of Aboriginal languages. "Wurrung Wurrung is a teaching and learning kit for Indigenous and non-Indigenous students and teachers at primary and secondary level. The kit contains photocopiable activity sheets and resources for studies in cultural awarness through language." -- Publisher's website. "The Wurrung Wurrung Kit is designed to introduce students at all levels to the heritage of Aboriginal languages within the area now known as Victoria. The kit aims to: Create awareness of Victorian Aboriginal languages in the past and present. The kit is not designed for the teaching of languages, Develop students' understanding of the relationship between the languages and culture of Victorian Indigenous people, or Koories, Create awareness of the importance of language to indigenous communities today and to foster respect for these communities and their languages, Highlight the diversity within Aboriginal Victoria and Australia in terms of languages and culture, Provide resources for students and teachers that can be used either as a window into Aboriginal culture generally, or to complement a broader unit of work in indigenous studies."--P. 5.5-51 P.; maps; charts; refs.; ports,; ill,A resource kit for teachers of Aboriginal languages. "Wurrung Wurrung is a teaching and learning kit for Indigenous and non-Indigenous students and teachers at primary and secondary level. The kit contains photocopiable activity sheets and resources for studies in cultural awarness through language." -- Publisher's website. "The Wurrung Wurrung Kit is designed to introduce students at all levels to the heritage of Aboriginal languages within the area now known as Victoria. The kit aims to: Create awareness of Victorian Aboriginal languages in the past and present. The kit is not designed for the teaching of languages, Develop students' understanding of the relationship between the languages and culture of Victorian Indigenous people, or Koories, Create awareness of the importance of language to indigenous communities today and to foster respect for these communities and their languages, Highlight the diversity within Aboriginal Victoria and Australia in terms of languages and culture, Provide resources for students and teachers that can be used either as a window into Aboriginal culture generally, or to complement a broader unit of work in indigenous studies."--P. 5.aboriginal australians -- victoria -- languages -- study and teaching. | aboriginal australians -- civilization -- study and teaching. | victoria -- civilization -- study and teaching. | -
Merri-bek City Council
Work on paper - Charcoal and pages from Aboriginal Words and Place Names, Jenna Lee, Without us, 2022
... of culture and her mother’s teachings of papercraft. Lee explains ...Jenna Lee dissects and reconstructs colonial 'Indigenous dictionaries' and embeds the works with new cultural meaning. Long obsessed with the duality of the destructive and healing properties that fire can yield, this element has been applied to the paper in the forms of burning and mark-making. In Without Us, Lee uses charcoal to conceal the text on the page, viewing this process as a ritualistic act of reclaiming and honouring Indigenous heritage while challenging the oppressive legacies of colonialism. Lee explains in Art Guide (2022), ‘These books in particular [used to create the proposed works] are Aboriginal language dictionaries—but there’s no such thing as “Aboriginal language”. There are hundreds of languages. The dictionary just presents words, with no reference to where they came from. It was specifically published by collating compendiums from the 1920s, 30s and 40s, with the purpose to give [non-Indigenous] people pleasant sounding Aboriginal words to name children, houses and boats. And yet the first things that were taken from us was our language, children, land and water. And the reason our words were so widely written down was because [white Australians] were trying to eradicate us. They thought we were going extinct. The deeper you get into it, the darker it gets. But the purpose of my work is to take those horrible things and cast them as something beautiful.’Framed artwork