"We're the Mob You Should Be Listening to": Aboriginal Elders at Mornington Island Speak up about Productive Relationships with Visiting Teachers

Autor/in	Bond, Hilary
Titel	"We're the Mob You Should Be Listening to": Aboriginal Elders at Mornington Island Speak up about Productive Relationships with Visiting Teachers
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 39 (2010), S.40-53 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1326-0111
Schlagwörter	Educational Objectives; Social Theories; School Community Relationship; Participatory Research; Action Research; Indigenous Populations; Indigenous Knowledge; Interviews; Community Involvement; Local Issues; Community Attitudes; Relevance (Education); Foreign Countries; Community Education; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Gesellschaftstheorie; Forschungstätigkeit; Projektforschung; Sinti und Roma; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Relevance; Relevanz; Ausland; ; Gemeinschaftserziehung; Nachbarschaftserziehung; Australien
Abstract	This paper explores, with a qualitative framework, critical social theory and thematic analysis, the narratives of many Aboriginal elders of Mornington Island (Kunhanhaa) about their history and their potential to form productive kin-based relationships with visiting teachers in order to influence the curriculum and pedagogy delivered at the local school. One exemplary teacher's journey provides educational insights that teachers need to be culturally responsive, friendly and compassionate and should heed the advice of senior Indigenous members of a community to be successful teachers. No other teachers are interviewed, nor are the opinions of the Queensland Department of Education sought. I spent from 1998 to mid 2003 researching this topic for my PhD after many of the elders asked for my help to improve the educational outcomes of the local school and the lives of the children in the community. Thirty of the male elders and 12 female elders asked me to help them regain their former positions as teachers at the local school, as they had severe misgivings about prevailing relationship with the teachers and the contribution of the school to their community. This participatory action-research paper positions the elders as active agents, insistent that teachers act as edu-carers to ensure the community's young people's survival in the face of worsening anomie. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	University of Queensland. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia. Tel: +61-7-3365-1969; Fax: +61-7-3365-6855; e-mail: ajie@uq.edu.au; Web site: http://www.atsis.uq.edu.au/ajie/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10