A Personal Philosophy Concerning Torres Strait Island Community Education

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 31-41
Author(s):  
M. Bond
Keyword(s):  
Community Education ◽  
Or Education ◽  
Western Education ◽  
Torres Strait Island ◽  
Island Communities ◽  
Island Community ◽  
Cape York ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
The One ◽  
Personal Philosophy

Bamaga stands on the tip of Cape York and adjacent to a number of Torres Strait Islands. Both Bamaga and the Islands are included in the one administrative region.Parents of students on the Torres Strait Island communities are still confused as to what schools or education are providing for their children. Parents have been desperately hoping that education would improve their ways of living as they were led to believe. As it now stands, more and more parents are becoming disillusioned after receiving evidence of the inadequacy of the Western education system for their culture and beliefs.

Unsustainable harvest of dugongs in Torres Strait and Cape York (Australia) waters: two case studies using population viability analysis

2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Heinsohn ◽  
Robert C. Lacy ◽  
David B. Lindenmayer ◽  
Helene Marsh ◽  
Donna Kwan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Population Viability Analysis ◽  
Population Viability ◽  
Viability Analysis ◽  
Cape York ◽  
Torres Strait

Mainland magic: Interpreting cultural influences across Cape York–Torres Strait

2015 ◽  
Vol 385 ◽  
pp. 69-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Greer ◽  
Rosita Henry ◽  
Susan McIntyre-Tamwoy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Cape York ◽  
Torres Strait

scholarly journals The Influence of Education and Local Culture on Community Preparedness in Facing Disasters

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Rosiady Husaenie Sayuti ◽  
Oryza Pneumatica Inderasari ◽  
Azhari Evendi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Community Behavior ◽  
Island Communities ◽  
Community Preparedness ◽  
Level Of Understanding

This research is motivated by the awareness of the importance of community preparedness against disasters, especially for island communities whose locations are in disaster-prone areas. Maringkik Island, East Lombok Regency was chosen as the research location because the island is included in the southern part of Lombok Island which has the potential for megathrust with earthquakes above 8 SR. The objectives of this study were to determine: (1) the level of community education in Maringkik Island and its effect on community readiness in dealing with current disasters, (2) the level of understanding of disaster preparedness in the community in patron-client relationships, and (3) the level of disaster preparedness in the local social system of community in Maringkik Island, East Lombok Regency. The method used in this research is mixed methods, a combination of quantitative and qualitative research. The data were collected using in-depth interviews and surveys using a questionnaire that had been prepared. The results obtained from this study are that community preparedness in facing disasters is influenced by several factors, namely the level of education and knowledge as well as existing socio-cultural values. In addition, the existing patron-client pattern actually contributes to the community's low understanding of disaster preparedness. Community behavior and preparedness in the event of a disaster are still traditional, instinctive and natural, not based on modern science. Therefore, this study recommends the importance of disaster-specific subjects in schools and routine disaster mitigation-related training from related institutions.

The Wilding of Cape York Peninsula

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Neale
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
The Other ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Partial Failure ◽  
Hand Part ◽  
Cape York ◽  
The One ◽  
Colonial Encounters

In Chapter 1, I argue that ‘wildness’ is a product settler attempts to understand and thereby spatially remake the Northern Australia since the first colonial encounters in the 17th Century. For European explorers, a region like Cape York Peninsula was a wilderness to be surveyed, and through the misadventures and conflicts of inland expeditions it came to be understood as ‘wretched’ country populated with ‘treacherous’ peoples. Surveying subsequent uses of ‘the wild’ in this region, this chapter shows that if, on the one hand, part of the settler project has been to discursively and materially dictate the shape and texture of the region through such forms of wildness – ‘wilderness,’ ‘wild time,’ ‘wild blacks’ and ‘wild whites’ – then, on the other, the contemporary ‘wilderness’ should be understood not only as a product of the resistance and resilience of its Indigenous peoples, but also as the partial failure of this project.

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