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‘I Really Want To Make A Difference For These Kids But It’S Just Too Hard’: One Aboriginal Teacher’S Experiences Of Moving Away, Moving On And Moving Up, Ninetta Santoro
‘I Really Want To Make A Difference For These Kids But It’S Just Too Hard’: One Aboriginal Teacher’S Experiences Of Moving Away, Moving On And Moving Up, Ninetta Santoro
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
This paper draws on longitudinal data to examine the changing professional identity of one beginning teacher over a three-year period. Using a post-structuralist framework and theories of social class and capital, I highlight the complexities, contradictions and impossibilities of new graduate, Luke, sustaining an identity as ‘Aboriginal teacher’ in Australian schools. I trace the shift in his commitment to working with underachieving Aboriginal boys in challenging school contexts at the beginning of his career, to his move into a middle-class white girls’ school towards the end of his third year of teaching. I suggest this was a result of the …
Warrki Jarrinjaku ‘Working Together Everyone And Listening’: Growing Together As Leaders For Aboriginal Children In Remote Central Australia, Kathryn Priest, Sharijin King, Irene Nangala, Wendy Nungurrayi Brown, Marilyn Nangala
Warrki Jarrinjaku ‘Working Together Everyone And Listening’: Growing Together As Leaders For Aboriginal Children In Remote Central Australia, Kathryn Priest, Sharijin King, Irene Nangala, Wendy Nungurrayi Brown, Marilyn Nangala
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
This article outlines an early childhood leadership model that senior Anangu and Yapa (Aboriginal) women, living semi-traditional lifestyles in the remote desert regions of central Australia, have identified as a positive and important way forward for their children, families, governments and related professionals. The initiative – Warrki Jarrinjaku Jintangkamanu Purananjaku (Warrki Jarrinjaku), Warlpiri for ‘working together everyone and listening’ – is a collaboration between senior Anangu and Yapa women from the central desert, Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi Aboriginal Organisation (Waltja) and the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA). It is also known as the Aboriginal …