The Eighth International Literacy & Education Research Network Conference on

SPETSES, GREECE
4-8 July 2001

Abstract:

This paper and multi-media presentation will show how Information and Communication Technologies are assisting Indigenous students in remote communities in central Australia to successfully gain multi-literacies.

At the same time these Indigenous students are enculturating themselves into many cultures from a world increasingly fracturing into many cultures or tribes. The Indigenous students' own cultures are evolving and challenging them to incorporate new beliefs, new cultures and new ideas as they seek to make sense of an increasingly hostile world.

Providing a brief historical and up-to-date overview of how, using Indigenous knowledge and emerging technologies has enabled the future literacies to be informed by the past. The many cultures and literacies taken up by Indigenous students and the stories left by those who have departed contain lessons for all educators.

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Bruce Underwood is a lecturer in the Anangu Tertiary Education Program (AnTEP) which is an off-campus program for Indigenous students who live in remote communities in central Australia approximately 1500 kms away from the University campus. The students live in the semi-arid regions of Australia in developing world conditions and learn English as a second, third or fourth language.

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Presentation Type
30 min. Paper

Presentation Equipment and Other Requests
Will bring iBook but would like use of a data projector. However will bring overhead transparencies as well

Speaking Date/Time Restrictions

Country
Australia