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Gawa Christian School: An 'On Country' and 'Bothways' Philosophy of Education.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gawa Christian School: An 'On Country' and 'Bothways' Philosophy of Education./
Author:	Van Gelderen, Ben.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	436 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-07A.
Subject:	Teaching. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28907739
ISBN:	9798759914686

Gawa Christian School: An 'On Country' and 'Bothways' Philosophy of Education.
Van Gelderen, Ben.

Gawa Christian School: An 'On Country' and 'Bothways' Philosophy of Education. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 436 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Charles Darwin University (Australia), 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The establishment of the fully staffed and resourced Christian school at the Warramiri Yolnu, remote Indigenous homeland of Gawa in northeast Arnhem Land is an impressive narrative of vision and resilience. However, even more impressive is the complex and profound philosophy of education that sits beneath this narrative and continues to supply the inspiration for Gawa Christian School.The 'on country' perspective functions as the axiological foundation for the school, maintaining that true teaching and learning can only eventuate when the right people are living holistically together on their right land, utilising their right language. In contradistinction to the ex-Mission community centralisation or 'hub' town model of government educational planning, at Gawa the priority remains firmly on children being raised on appropriate yirralka (clan home-land-identity centres) with their Warramiri Elders, and other appropriate Yolnu, as determined through the gurruṯu (kinship) system. Furthermore, at Gawa there is an emerging evolution of the philosophy to incorporate a 'through country' emphasis, highlighting the land's active role in the education process via the development of a seasonal-cycle digital curriculum.'Bothways' education was first expounded by Yolnu educators in the 1980s, through the sharing of various metaphors from moiety and clan structures, ceremonial practices and water/food sources to explain how balanda (white) schooling systems should mirror the balanced and negotiated common ground where new knowledge can be produced in the Yolnu cosmology. Despite the pressures of the standardised Australian Curriculum and the dominance of English literacy and numeracy benchmarks in the last decade, at Gawa this traditional Yolnu 'Bothways' approach is still pursued. Indeed, due to the transculturation history that the Warramiri clan, in particular, have shared with waves of 'outsiders' to Yolnu shores over many centuries (including Methodist missionaries, 'Macassans' and even older sea-faring visitors), the 'Bothways' epithet is an apt summary of the epistemological foundation of the school's philosophy. At Gawa, new metaphors have been supplied to renew this 'Bothways' approach from a distinct Warramiri perspective and multiliteracy pedagogies have been developed to integrate traditional Warramiri, Christian and balanda English literacy priorities into a synthesised learning environment.The elucidation of the 'on country' and 'Bothways' philosophy of the Gawa Christian School is a significant project as it will assist future balanda and Yolnu teachers to maintain the Warramiri vision in the local Gawa context and supplies a model to grow a network of Yolnu Christian homeland schools across Arnhem Land. In an era of increasing educational confusion and dysfunction in remote Indigenous Australia, the current research is a profound but clear example of an educational philosophy application functioning to support genuine Indigenous self-determination.

ISBN: 9798759914686Subjects--Topical Terms:

517098
Teaching.

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