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Diwurruwurru: Towards a New Kind of Two-Way Classroom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2016

John Bradley ,
Frances Devlin-Glass  and
Elizabeth Mackinlay
John Bradley
Affiliation:
Brisbane, Queensland
Frances Devlin-Glass
Affiliation:
Brisbane, Queensland
Elizabeth Mackinlay
Affiliation:
Brisbane, Queensland
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A project is currently underway at http://arts.deakin.edu.au which is innovative on a number of fronts. It has multiple beginnings: in the proactive, as culture dissemination work of a number of Yanyuwa and Garrwa women, who proclaimed in the white man’s world that they were ‘bosses themselves’ (Gale 1983) and who in various ways have sought to bring their culture to the attention of the wider world. This has been accomplished through a prize-winning (Atom Australian Teachers of Media awards in 1991) film, Buwarrala Akarriya: Journey East (1989), of are-enacted ritual foot-walk in 1988 from Borroloola to Manankurra 90 kilometres away. They also made a another prize winning film called Ka-wayawayarna: The Aeroplane Dance (1993) which won the Royal Anthropological Society of London award for the best ethnographic film in 1995. Since 1997 senior Yanyuwa women have been involved on a regular basis in sharing their knowledge of Yanyuwa performance practice with tertiary students in a subject called Women’s Music and Dance in Indigenous Australia which is offered as a course in anthropology through the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, they have also lectured in core anthropology subjects in the faculty of Social and Behavourial Sciences Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Queensland. They have also engaged actively in work as language preservers and teachers at the Borroloola Community Education Centre (hereafter BCEC) and in the Tennant Creek Language Centre program called Papulu Apparr-Kari.

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Section B: Tertiary Education
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , December 1999 , pp. 24 - 26
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1999

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