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Dhinthun Wayawu - Looking for a Pathway to Knowledge: Towards a Vision of Yolngu education in Milingimbi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Franca Tamisari  and
Elizabeth Milmilany
Franca Tamisari
Affiliation:
School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
Elizabeth Milmilany
Affiliation:
Milingimbi Community Education Centre, PMB54, Winnellie, Northern Territory, 0854, Australia
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Abstract

In this paper we present a brief history of education at the community of Milingimbi in northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory from the mission times to today. In focusing on the emergence and implementation of bicultural curriculum initiatives we explore some of the difficulties and ever present challenges encountered by Yolngu educators, leaders and elders in developing a local vision of education which, in order to meet community needs and aspirations, needs to be grounded in Yolngu stages of learning, cultural values of identity, responsibility and structures of authority.

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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 32 , 2003 , pp. 1 - 10
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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