Acknowledgement and Thank You
The Kinship On-Line Project has been developed as the result of an Office for Learning and Teaching (OLTC) grant to developIndigenous Online Cultural Teaching & Sharing Resources (Kinship Online Project), which is an online cultural education workshop based around Aboriginal Kinship systems used in Australia. The project is built on an existing face-to-face interactive presentation based on the theme of Australian Aboriginal Kinship systems developed by Lynette Riley (1987). A key consideration has been Aboriginal community engagement in relation to the design and development of the project.
The Team involved in the project has been:
PROJECT TEAM
Associate Professor Janet Mooney (University of Sydney)
Dr Cat Kutay (University of NSW)
Ms Lynette Riley (University of Sydney)
Dr Deirdre Howard-Wagner (University of Sydney)
Ms Beverly Baker, Administrative Executive Officer, Aboriginal Education Council
EDITH COWAN SITE TEAM
Professor Moira Sim
Ms Toni Wain
Dr Rachel Alexander
CULTURAL ADVISORY TEAM
Ms Connie Ah-See, Head Teacher, Yarradamarra Centre, Western Institute of TAFE, Dubbo TAFE Campus
Ms Diane Riley-McNaboe, Acting Co-ordinator North West Wiradjuri Language and Culture Nest, Yarradamarra Centre, Dubbo TAFE Campus
IT ADVISORY TEAM
Dr Ralf Klamma RWTH Aachen University
Dr Yiwei Cao RWTH Aachen University
INDEPENDENT EVALUATOR
Dr Sandy O'Sullivan Batchelor College
NARRATIVE COLLECTION TEAM
Ms Connie Ah-See, Head Teacher, Yarradamarra Centre, Western Institute of TAFE, Dubbo TAFE Campus
Ms Diane Riley-McNaboe, Acting Co-ordinator North West Wiradjuri Language and Culture Nest, Yarradamarra Centre, Dubbo TAFE Campus
Mr Michael Donovan, Teacher, Yarradamarra Centre, Western Institute of TAFE, Dubbo TAFE Campus
We would like to thank and acknowledge the contribution of work by:
Sally Hogan, Principal, Newton PS and Michael Genner – Bemel-Gardoo Project, NSWDEC Sydney Region and staff involved in the Bemel-Gardoo Project for the taping of a Kinship Presentation by Lynette Riley and for their initial editing of the presentation and their agreements to allow the Kinship On-line Project to use this taped presentation to further assist other staff and students in the piloting of this Project.
We gives thanks to the Dubbo & regional Aboriginal community for their engagement in the project and their agreement to be involved in providing their narratives for the benefit of students who will make use of this website.
Extra sources:
| StakeHolder Engagement | Honouring our strengths - moving forward |
| StakeHolder Engagement | Honouring our strengths - moving forward |
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Abstract: Persistent perceptions of deficit and conflict have characterised and constrained the history of relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians since contact. The success of their saturation is apparent in a continuing approach that presents the response to Aboriginal needs in terms of health and education 'gaps'; 'the Aboriginal problem', 'mainstreaming (making them more like us)' or 'interventions' (and all the lack of ability that such a word implies). Language in programs and the underlying approach to address very real health, economic and social need continues to carry (and replicate) an implicit assumption of deficit and a positioning of the locus of control away from Aboriginal people (i.e. service 'delivery' instead of service 'access'). This paper recognises that an erosive mindset of deficit perceptions of Aboriginality is also being widely adopted by Aboriginal people by ourselves and other Aboriginal people - that if un-discussed will continue to impact on the Aboriginal struggle. This paper will unpack an Aboriginal framework (Engoori) that can reconnect people and reignite authentic community engagement discussions. |
| Author: Lynette |
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This project is a combined initiative of the following Universities:
The stories used on this site were collected as part of the OLT project Creating cultural empathy and challenging attitudes through Indigenous narrative
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