Non-Indigenous Academic and Indigenous Autonomy

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Partington
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Indigenous Education ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Catholic School ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
Australian Journal ◽  
Indigenous Autonomy ◽  
The Many

One of the many fascinating problems raised in recent issues of the Australian Journal of Indigenous Education (AJIE) is that of Indigenous autonomy in education. Although opinions differed about the extent to which Indigenous people currently exercise educational autonomy in various situations, there was wide agreement that there ought to be Indigenous control or ‘ownership’ of all knowledge relating to Indigenous life and culture, past and present. Sister Anne Gardner, then Principal of Murrupurtyanuwu Catholic School in NT, explained (1996: 20) how she decided to ‘let go, to move away from the dominant role as Principal’, in order that Indigenous persons could take control. She had been helped to this conclusion by reading Paulo Freire, Martin Buber and Hedley Beare, and, within the NT itself, ‘people of that educational calibre, such as Beth Graham, Sr Teresa Ward, Fran Murray, Stephen Harris, all pleading with us to allow education to be owned by Aboriginal people’. Sr Gardner held that ‘Aboriginal people never act as “leader”, a view shared by her designated Indigenous successor, Teresita Puruntayemeri, then Principal-in-Training of Murrupurtyanuwu Catholic School, who wrote (1996: 24-25) that ‘for a Tiwi peron it is too difficult to stand alone in leadership’. One way to share the burdens of leadership is, she suggests, to ‘perform different dances in the Milmaka ring, sometimes in pairs or in a group’.

A CONDENAÇÃO DE NGUNGA E A APOTEOSE DO MANIQUEÍSMO: UMA INTERPRETAÇÃO DO ELOGIO DA IGNORÂNCIA DE PEPETELA

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Paulo Machado Nascimento Gloria
Keyword(s):  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Martin Buber

O Elogio da Ignorância, o primeiro dos dois segmentos em forma dramática do romance O Cão eos caluandas do escritor angolano Pepetela, será interpretado como a não realização e até negação,por parte da trajetória angolana até então, daquele ideal humanista personifcado no personagemNgunga de As Aventuras de Ngunga. Mostraremos, também, o quanto a crítica pepeteliana contidanesse segmento crucial da obra, algo como que uma miniatura dela mesma, dialoga de maneirabem próxima com o pensamento do educador brasileiro Paulo Freire na obra Pedagogia do Oprimido, acerca do fracasso dos movimentos libertadores ao buscarem mudar um estado social sematentar em remover certos padrões maniqueístas de julgamento herdados da estrutura social anterior. A falta de diálogo, resultante da visão do outro como “coisa” útil a ser manipulada para um fmmaior, também será brevemente abordada a partir da consideração das relações Eu-Tu e Eu-Issona obra Eu e Tu de Martin Buber em diálogo com o texto pepeteliano.

scholarly journals Espiritualidade e bioética: prevenção da “violência” em instituições de saúde

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cássia Quelho Tavares
Keyword(s):  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
Karl Rahner

A proposta deste artigo é refletir sobre a dimensão da espiritualidade e da bioética, em vista da construção do diálogo como caminho possível para um cuidado mais humanizado e solidário, prevenindo os mecanismos de violência institucional. A fundamentação teórica dos temas centrais como espiritualidade, vulnerabilidade e humanização do cuidado é apresentada a partir dos seguintes recortes: da teologia, em Karl Rahner; da filosofia do inter-humano, em Martin Buber; e da educação, em Paulo Freire, onde humanização e diálogo se entrecruzam. A vulnerabilidade humana sobressai em nossas unidades de saúde, infelizmente, em parte, reforçada pelas dificuldades relacionais entre profissional de saúde-paciente-família. Essas linhas não resultam de uma pesquisa formal, mas é fruto da experiência profissional da autora como enfermeira e teóloga, comprometida com a criação de “espaços protegidos”, “rodas de conversa”, lugares onde o profissional-cuidador pode ser acolhido, sentindo-se cuidado. Essas iniciativas demonstram que o diálogo e a espiritualidade, experimentados de maneira mais genuína, resultam na qualidade da assistência oferecida ao usuário dos serviços de saúde pública e complementar, bem como na motivação dos profissionais. Esperamos que esta reflexão fomente novos espaços de partilha solidária, nos quais cuidado, competência e saberes interdisciplinares se encontrem.

Featureless Data Clustering

2010 ◽  
pp. 141-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilson Wong
Keyword(s):  
Data Clustering ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Clustering Algorithms ◽  
Adaptive Clustering ◽  
Feature Based ◽  
Clustering Approach ◽  
Semantic Computation ◽  
The Many ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Existing Data

Feature-based semantic measurements have played a dominant role in conventional data clustering algorithms for many existing applications. However, the applicability of existing data clustering approaches to a wider range of applications is limited due to issues such as complexity involved in semantic computation, long pre-processing time required for feature preparation, and poor extensibility of semantic measurement due to non-incremental feature source. This chapter first summarises the many commonly used clustering algorithms and feature-based semantic measurements, and then highlights the shortcomings to make way for the proposal of an adaptive clustering approach based on featureless semantic measurements. The chapter concludes with experiments demonstrating the performance and wide applicability of the proposed clustering approach.

the Seed is the Law

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Eileen M. Antone
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
The People ◽  
The Law ◽  
Seeds Of Peace ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
The Many ◽  
Ways Of Life

AbstractSince humanities arise from a specific place and from the people of that place, this article will focus on Peacemaker’s revolutionary teachings about the seed of law. Long before the people from across the ocean arrived here on Turtle Island (North America) there was much warfare happening. According to John Mohawk (2001, para. 1), an Iroquoian social historian, “[t]he people had been at war for so long that some were born knowing they had enemies [but] not knowing why they had enemies”. Peacemaker planted the seeds of peace which resulted in the Kayenla’kowa, the Great Law of Peace (n. d.), which is the basis of the Hotinosh^ni Confederacy. With the burial of the weapons of war under the Great Tree of Peace the Hotinosh^ni were able to develop their rituals and ceremonies to reflect their relationship with creation. This peaceful confederacy was disrupted shortly after the Europeans arrived with their violent imperialistic ways of life. The 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal People (RCAP) documented the situation of Aboriginal communities, which was the result of oppressive policies and programs of colonialism. The RCAP also captured the many different voices of the Aboriginal people in their struggle to revitalise their traditional teachings that will make them strong again.

scholarly journals Stand Up for the Burrup: Saving the Largest Aboriginal Rock Art Precinct in Australia

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 92-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Aboriginal Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

The Dampier Rock Art Precinct contains the largest and most ancient collection of Aboriginal rock art in Australia. The cultural landscape created by generations of Aboriginal people includes images of long-extinct fauna and demonstrates the response of peoples to a changing climate over thousands of years as well as the continuity of lived experience. Despite Australian national heritage listing in 2007, this cultural landscape continues to be threatened by industrial development. Rock art on the eastern side of the archipelago, on the Burrup Peninsula, was relocated following the discovery of adjacent off-shore gas reserves so that a major gas plant could be constructed. Work has now begun on the construction of a second major gas plant nearby. This article describes the rock art of the Dampier Archipelago and the troubled history of European-Aboriginal contact history, before examining the impact of industry on the region and its environment. The destruction of Aboriginal rock art to meet the needs of industry is an example of continuing indifference to Aboriginal culture. While the complex struggle to protect the cultural landscape of the Burrup, in particular, involving Indigenous people, archaeologists, historians, state and federal politicians, government bureaucrats and multi-national companies, eventually led to national heritage listing, it is not clear that the battle to save the Burrup has been won.

scholarly journals Creating the Aboriginal Vagrant

2018 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Nettelbeck
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
Colonial Governance ◽  
Emergent Discourse ◽  
Over Time

This article considers how shifting programs of Aboriginal protection in nineteenth-century Australia responded to Indigenous mobility as a problem of colonial governance and how they contributed over time to creating an emergent discourse of the Aboriginal “vagrant.” There has been surprisingly little attention to how the legal charge of vagrancy became applied to Indigenous people in colonial Australia before the twentieth century, perhaps because the very notion of the Aboriginal vagrant was subject to ambivalence throughout much of the nineteenth century. When vagrancy laws were first introduced into Australia’s colonies, Aboriginal people were exempt from them as a group not yet subject to the ordinary regulatory codes of colonial society. Bringing them within the protective fold of colonial social order was one of the principal tasks of the office of ‘protection’ that was introduced into three Australian jurisdictions during the late 1830s. As the nineteenth century progressed and Aboriginal people became more susceptible to social order policing, a concept of Indigenous vagrancy hardened into place, and programs of protection became central to its management.

scholarly journals He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tāngata! (What is the most important thing in the world? It is people!)

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridgette Masters-Awatere ◽  
Moana Rarere ◽  
Rewa Gilbert ◽  
Carey Manuel ◽  
Nina Scott
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Primary Care Providers ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Health Goals ◽  
The Many ◽  
Positive Effect

This paper highlights the importance of people as a central factor in improving health for Māori (Indigenous people of New Zealand). How whānau (family) relationships, connections, values and inspiration are integral to achieving Indigenous health goals is explained. Descriptions of how community researchers, healthcare staff, consumers and academics worked together to design interventions for two health services (in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions) is included. Through highlighting the experiences of health consumers, the potential for future interventions to reduce the advancement of pre-diabetes among whānau is described. Evidence from the study interviews reinforces the importance of whānau and whakapapa (heritage) as enabling factors for Indigenous people to improve health. Specifically, the positive effect of whānau enhancing activities that support peoples’ aspirations of tino rangatiratanga (self-determination) in their lives when engaging with health care has been observed. This study highlights the many positives that have emerged, and offers an opportunity for taking primary health to the next level by placing whānau alongside Indigenous primary care providers at the centre of change strategies.

Fear, Empathy and Ambition: George Augustus Robinson’s Friendly Mission

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-93
Author(s):  
Mick Warren
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Emotional Connection

Abstract Fear beset the settler community of Van Diemen’s Land throughout the 1820s as Aboriginal resistance to European dispossession intensified, a period referred to as the Black War. Representative of the emerging obligation into the 1830s to treat Indigenous people across the British imperial world more kindly, George Augustus Robinson presents a contradictory figure during this tumultuous period. Decrying the depravity of his fellow settlers and their servants, Robinson adapted the conciliatory agenda of Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur in forming the Friendly Mission, a roving missionary enterprise involving Aboriginal people in the task of their own pacification and exile. At once an insight to the sincere emotional connection he felt with his mission subjects, Robinson’s Friendly Mission journals also embody the deep contradictions of British humanitarian governance and its complicity in the logic of elimination it sought to challenge.

scholarly journals Scientific Racism on Display: Representations of Indigenous Cultures and Societies at the Turn of the 20th Century

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-107
Author(s):  
Christina Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
World's Fairs ◽  
Scientific Racism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
World’S Fairs

Through the analysis of photographs and newspapers, I analyze specific representations of indigenous people and cultures in the public arena, such as in museums and World’s Fairs. Using and modifying Edward Said’s model of Orientalism, I argue that these representations reinforced problematic and damaging ideas about aboriginal people.

scholarly journals Editorial

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. iii-iv
Keyword(s):  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Indigenous Education ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Australian Journal ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Torres Strait

The challenge for any research journal today is how to continue to make the work we publish relevant, contemporary and innovative for the research groups, educational organisations, and Indigenous communities locally and globally that we serve. At the same time, we recognise it is important for us to continue our work in The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education within the critical pedagogical agenda in which it began; that is, the empowerment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through education, combined with a concern to critique and challenge the national and international colonial contexts in which Indigenous education is positioned today.

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