TY - CHAP
T1 - ‘I Could Still Be Myself as a Warlpiri Person’
T2 - How Bilingual Education Achieves Community Development Aims
AU - O’Shannessy, Carmel
AU - Rose, Marlkirdi Napaljarri
AU - Johnson, Elaine Nangala
AU - White, Gracie Napaljarri
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Three Warlpiri educators provide insightful reflections on their experiences in a bilingual education programme in a remote community in Australia, illustrating how the language and culture programme meets community development aims. These include capacity building and increasing participation and empowerment within the community. The chapter includes accessible description of the richness of the multi-dimensional programme, and contextualisation of the community struggle for programme support. The educators discuss Warlpiri community perspectives on the programme and their journeys in becoming educators and literacy workers. They reflect on how their learning through higher education, and practice and leadership in the programme, have been extended to leadership in other related areas. They show how the teaching and learning of Warlpiri has been central to their personal and professional development.
AB - Three Warlpiri educators provide insightful reflections on their experiences in a bilingual education programme in a remote community in Australia, illustrating how the language and culture programme meets community development aims. These include capacity building and increasing participation and empowerment within the community. The chapter includes accessible description of the richness of the multi-dimensional programme, and contextualisation of the community struggle for programme support. The educators discuss Warlpiri community perspectives on the programme and their journeys in becoming educators and literacy workers. They reflect on how their learning through higher education, and practice and leadership in the programme, have been extended to leadership in other related areas. They show how the teaching and learning of Warlpiri has been central to their personal and professional development.
KW - Bilingual education
KW - Community development
KW - Indigenous educators
KW - Literacy
KW - Warlpiri
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85165101969&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-93522-1_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-93522-1_7
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783030935214
SP - 163
EP - 188
BT - Languages, Linguistics and Development Practices
PB - Springer International Publishing Switzerland
ER -