Reflection on the present situation in Arnhem Land
History of Contact, Trade, employment, health and drug abuse.
Failure of the dominant culture to communicate
Loss of Control/Purpose
High death rate
Capacity Building Blockers
What are they?
Cultural naming
Two way mystification
Human Dynamics of culture
Programs that fit dominant culture values/world view
Traditional Kinship Structures
A different way of seeing family relationships
Yin and Yang in Arnhemland
Avoidance relationships
What is Yothu/Yindi?
Traditional Land Owning Systems
Surface and subsurface land ownership
Ancient alliances for trade and conservation
Sacred sites explained
What are dreaming tracks?
Natural farming practices
Education that Works
World viewing
Cultural knowledge base/gaps
Generative words and phrases
Community Education vs Elitist Education
Appropriating new knowledge
Who can teach who?
The people's language : an extremely good educational tool
Examples of Successful Projects
Projects that empower the people to create their own interventions to affect their own future and cost negative to Government
Including Health, Economic, Legal and Governance education
Petrol sniffing and other drug abuse interventions
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Communication across cultures.
What is language?
When is ‘yes’ not a ‘yes’?
The T.A. of communication
Prefixing / Suffixing languages
From the peoples language to English
Health, economic and legal academic language
Use of English as a second language
Traditional Law and Politics
The Madayin Law
Traditional forms of encoding information
The role and purpose of songlines
Traditional political leadership
(No sacred information will be divulged)
Traditional and non-traditional learning processes
The traditional learning process
Comparing education systems
The conflict between the two systems
Different Cultural mores
Answering particular questions
During the workshop we will answer questions from the floor covering a wide range of different disciplines, creating a lively, active and if necessary controlled dialogue.
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