Ngoonjook Edition 19

Ngoonjook seeks to make relevant material available to an Indigenous readership and to all those interested in Indigenous Australian issues. Themes explored include: education, health, cultural identity, natural and cultural resource management, the arts and linguistics.

Articles in this issue:

• The Square Is Not The Only Cliché General Staff Research by Patricia Coles
  • Who does research and what is it?
  • Research and the Institute
  • What Does All this Mean for Our Practice?
  • Getting There
  • Conclusion
• Getting Wisdom From The Ant Heap: Literacy & Literature by Ailsa Purdon
  • Teaching English
  • Two kinds of literacy
  • Actual uses
  • Potential uses
  • Experience of teaching literature at BIITE
  • Community aspirations
  • White teachers
  • Oppression
  • Videos or books
  • Combining forms
  • Conclusion
• Aboriginal Knowledge on the Internet by Michael Christie
  • Aboriginal Philosophy
  • Making Knowledge Together
  • Garma
  • Two Ways of Looking at Knowledge
  • Knowledge as Performance
  • Knowledge as Contained in Objects
  • The Internet
  • The Virtual Garma
• Research Ethics: From Theory to Practice by Jack Frawley
  • Ethics
  • Principles
  • Confidentiality
  • Input into research design
  • Mantawi: research partnerships
  • Negotiations to research
  • Doing the research
  • Informed decisions
  • Consent
  • Control and equity of influence
  • Reflections
• The Use of Indigenous Literacy in Tertiary Education by Robyn Ober
  • Student difficulties
  • Culturally appropriate
  • Academic text
  • Student choice
  • Student as teacher
• Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Culturally Defined Contexts by Robyn Hurley
  • Educational achievement
  • Educational ownership
  • Summary of the Project
  • Implications for teaching and learning in Community schools
  • Interest
  • Conclusion
• Journeying in the Heartlands: A Brief Review of Country Travelled by Terry Whitebeach
  • Prologue: An Apology
  • Place
  • The People
  • The Protocols
  • Process
  • Purpose
  • Portents
• Obituary: Kay Napaljarri Ross Warlpiri Educator, Linguist, Interpreted/Translator, Artist, Author, Cartographer
  • 1950s: Marriage and ‘home management’
  • 1070s: Bilingual programme
  • Tertiary studies
  • Linguist
  • Artist
  • Politics
  • Caring attitude