This is a segment of a talk by Corrina Gould on March 6, 2011, at the Catalyst Project’s Anne Braden Anti-Racist Organizing Training Program open panel on Indigenous Resistance and Colonization in North America. Ms. Gould is a Chochenyo Ohlone woman who is Co-Organizer for Indian People Organizing for Change, and Title VII Coordinator at the American Indian Child Resource Center’s Office of Indian Education. For more on her work, see: ipocshellmoundwalk.intuitwebsites.com For more on the Catalyst Project, see: www.collectiveliberation.org
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Indigenous Perspectives in Education for ECJ413 Week 12.
Brigid Glanville explores the need to fix problems in Indigenous communities including the new boarding school scholarship programme – the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (AIEF). Contact Andrew Penfold at www.aief.com.au for further information.
Learn more about The Flexible Learning Program for Indigenous Young Australians.
maketomorrowbetter.com.au Curtin staff member Matthew talks about his role at Curtin’s Centre for Aboriginal studies, and how it helps make tomorrow better for Indigenous students and their communities. maketomorrowbetter.com.au
J. Molintas, member of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigneous People, addressing the 1st meeting of EMRIP on Indigneous Education.
This is an iPod movie produced from a Keynote/Powerpoint presentation on Indigenous Anishinaabe Educational Principles. To view and read the individual slides, press the Pause button and then play to advance to the next slide. The opening “Grand Entry” is designed to be used during the introduction of the presenter or while people are entering and settling into the space.
Back in April, Taiwan’s Ministry of Education gathered 15 indigenous experts to discuss indigenous educational issues. The group will draft an indigenous education white paper, which is expected to be released in December.
NT homeland learning centers: Labor’s settler society racial apartheid indigenous education policies
Mar 30
When is a school not a school? In the Northern Territory (Australia), it’s when they’re called Homeland Learning Centres. They’re called Homeland Learning Centres because they’re all located on aboriginal traditional land at remote locations known as outstations or homelands. Many of them are poorly resourced when compared with schools in non-indigenous communities….. www.abc.net.au Homeland communities, also known as outstations, go to the heart of Aboriginal identity. Small family groups live on their traditional lands, away from the problems afflicting so many larger Aboriginal communities….. news.sbs.com.au (VIDEO) If you are a black parent don’t expect your kids will get the same access to schooling as white kids, it just doesn’t work that way in the Northern Territory. Before the residents of Mapuru [an Aboriginal homeland in north-east Arnhem Land, 600km east from Darwin] were able to access any educational services for their children, they first had to construct a school building. They had to find a Mapuru resident who was willing to teach without pay for six months. This was, and still is called the ‘trial’ period before becoming an acknowledged Homeland Learning Centre….. www.creativespirits.info April 11, 2009 – INDIGENOUS parents, demanding a new model of independent schooling in the most remote areas of the nation, are being hampered by the Northern Territory Education Department….. One year on from a blistering report that said separatist Aboriginal …
Interview with Dennis Banda