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Projects include
Strategies for Self-Determination: Adult Education
Needs of Aboriginal Communities and Training Needs of Aboriginal Community
Educators in NSW
This three year participatory action research project from 1987 to
1989 issued a series of reports. The final research report (Strategies
for Self Determination) was launched in October, 1990 at a conference
which was attended by over 200 people, including the Federal Minister
for Aboriginal Affairs. The final report received extensive media coverage.
It was the subject of a SBS television program, numerous radio interviews
and an editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Funding : Australia Research Council $75,000
Researchers: Griff Foley and Rick Flowers
Adult Education and Training in Aboriginal Communities -
Lightning Ridge and Gingie:
Two case studies of adult education
needs, existing adult education provision and strategies
to get more training
by Rick Flowers & Griff Foley (April, 1989) Download
report (PDF 395k)
Aboriginal Adult Education and Community
Development in the Central West of NSW
In March, 1989 a training needs analysis was conducted of 7 community
organisations located in Walgett, Collarenebri, Pilliga and Lightning
Ridge. Organisations in these towns had formed a regional training committee.
The needs analysis was conducted by means of review of program descriptions,
semi-structured interviews with staff and committee members, and a half
day workshop. A report is available.
Funding: NW Regional Aboriginal Training Network $1,500
Rick Flowers
and Griff Foley 1988 (report download
here PDF 5.1MB)
We're the Same Mob Fighting For the Same Thing: Bourke
Aboriginal Community Development & Adult Education Training Strategies
Rick Flowers, 1989
Sydney College of Advanced Education, Sydney
Paper from a National Research Fellowship Scheme (Download PDF 600k)
Aboriginal Community Development Research
and Training Program
(conducted for the NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group)
The project was innovative because it provided an opportunity for local
Aboriginal people to work and be trained as community educators or community
development agents in their own communities. In many Aboriginal communities
such roles are still performed by non-Aboriginal outsiders. The project
obtained a second year's funding in 1991 and was taken over by local
community committees. The university's role was to provide an intensive
training program to the Aboriginal community educators. This involved
field supervision, delivering in-service training workshops and co-ordinating
their work in the Diploma in Adult Education.
Funding: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission $231,000
Researcher: Rick Flowers
Download (PDF 260k)
Building Bridges between Black and White Organisations
In March, 1991 the Division was engaged by the NSW Local Community
Services Association to conduct a project which would make recommendations
about ways to strengthen links between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
community organisations. For this project visits were made organisations
in Narrabri and Wee Waa (NW NSW), facilitating a series of meetings,
a workshop and conducting interviews.
Funding: NSW Local Community Services Association $3,500
Researcher: Rick Flowers
Survey and analysis of literature to assist
National Review of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
Policy
In October, 1993 UTS was engaged to undertake an extensive literature
review and critical analysis of recent and current publications relating
to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education. The report is entitled
Review and Analysis of Literature relating to Aboriginal and Torres
Straight Islander Education (1994) Mary Ann Bin-Sallik, Noel Blomeley,
Rick Flowers and Paul Hughes.
This two part study is still one of the most comprehensive literature
reviews of Australian Indigenous education, covering all sectors, including
universities, TAFE and adult education.
Funding: Commonwealth Government, DEET $29,900
Researchers: Rick Flowers, Paul Hughes, Mary Ann Bin-Sallik, Noel
Blomeley
Download the Review and Analysis of Literature
relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Part
1 (PDF 2.4mb)
Download the Review and Analysis of
Literature relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
Part 2 (PDF 5.9mb)
Education for Self-Determination: A Review of the Implementation of
the Recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths
in Custody in relation to Aboriginal Community-Controlled Education
(1997)
Bob Boughton & Deborah Durnun,
Federation of Independent Aboriginal Education Providers: Alice Springs
This report provides a particularly useful and critical insight into
the state of formal education and Indigenous Australians. The report
reviews three main areas of relevance to Aboriginal community-controlled
education and the work of the independent providers, namely:
- Self-determination and the role of independent Aboriginal organisations
- Aboriginal adult education policies, programs and providers
- Other education-related issues, including research, cross-cultural education,
prisoner education and economic development.
Download review (PDF 14.1MB)
Aboriginal Family Support Worker Training Project
Illustrated stories about family support work with Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander families including discussion based exercises was published
in 1993.
Funding: NSW Department of Community Services $31,000
Project team: Louise Mulroney (NSW Family Support Services Assoc.)
Norma Ingram, Tony Morris, Rick Flowers
Writing and design of distance learning module
- Education & Indigenous Australians
This was developed for Southern Cross University's undergraduate teacher
education program.
Project team: Bilyana Blomeley and Rick Flowers
Community Organisation Training Program
A two day workshop in Aug. 1989 for members of the Far South Coast
Aboriginal Children's Service. An outcome of this workshop was a renaming
of the organisation and production of a submission which led to their
first receipt of funds for a position.
Client: TAFE Outreach
Staff: Rick Flowers
TAFE Staff Development Workshop : Curriculum Development
and Aboriginal Issues
A one day workshop in July 1992 for TAFE General Studies teachers on
the question of, is there an Aboriginal curriculum?
Client: Nowra TAFE College
Staff: Rick Flowers
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a PDF file
Reconciliation Kit for Young Australians
The purpose of this paper is to assist the planning of an Aboriginal
reconciliation program for the Girl Guides and The Scout Association
of Australia. The paper reports on preliminary reviews of past and current
activities within the Scout and Girl Guides movements that are directly
relevant to Aboriginal reconciliation. It should be noted that continuing
efforts will be made to gather further information about past and current
Scout and Girl Guides activities as this will assist the planning of
the reconciliation program. The paper also briefly describes the scope
and nature of educational materials and activities relevant to Aboriginal
reconciliation that have been developed by other organisations and people.
More about this... (pdf download)
Best Practice and Benchmarking in Aboriginal Community-Controlled Adult Education
(1997)
Bob Boughton & Deborah Durnan
Aboriginal community-controlled providers represent a distinct type of adult
education provision whose importance has long been acknowledged in research
findings and policy development. However the work of these providers has been
the subject of empirical investigation. This study reports on the findings
of an action research project conducted by the Federation of Independent Aboriginal
Providers, funded by the Australian National Training Authority to investigate
the nature of ‘best practice’ in the Aboriginal community-controlled
sector, and to develop guidelines to assist providers to benchmark their practices
Download Full Report (PDF 7MB)
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