Inge Kral
The literacy question in remote Indigenous Australia
Topical Issue 6 / 2009
May 2009 - Literacy in Remote Indigenous Australia
'The literacy question in remote Indigenous Australia'. The literacy debate rarely addresses the critical social and historical factors that also account for why literacy levels among remote Indigenous youth are lower than their mainstream counterparts. The focus on schooling obscures the less obvious fact that we must also be cognisant of the broader sociocultural factors associated with literacy acquisition, maintenance and transmission.
Literacy and remote Indigenous youth: Why social practice matters
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Writing about literacy in the remote Aboriginal context rarely considers anthropological aspects such as whether literacy has been incorporated into social practice, and how we understand change, transmission and transformation in the evolving social practices and cultural conceptions of reading and writing across the generations in the remote world. In this seminar Jerry Schwab and Inge Kral suggest that, in addition to schooling, everyday social practice is critical to literacy acquisition, maintenance and development in remote contexts.
Voting with their feet: Population study in the Ngaanyatjarra region
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
Analysts of Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) census data have commonly observed that the census enumeration in remote Indigenous regions of Australia underestimates the actual number of Indigenous people. Such underestimations of remote population groups have dire consequences not only for appropriate service delivery in such extreme regions, but also contribute to a misguided public perception that the population in remote Indigenous regions is declining. Clearly a better approach to undertaking census counts is needed in remote Australia.
The realities of Indigenous adult literacy acquisition and practice: Implications for capacity development in remote communities
Discussion Paper 257 / 2003
Abstract:
The future sustainability of remote communities is being questioned with increasing frequency. The current state of welfare dependency is fragile. Significant work is being undertaken to develop the capacity of Indigenous communities to govern their own services and adult literacy is clearly seen as a major factor in the participation of Indigenous people in community development and the capacity building processes. Yet little research on adult literacy practices and competence in remote Indigenous communities has taken place in Australia.
Inge Kral, Post-Doctoral Fellow
Inge Kral is a linguistic anthropologist with some twenty years experience in Indigenous education. She was a teacher, teacher linguist, adult literacy educator and education consultant in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory and Western Australia prior to commencing at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research in 2003. Inge has also worked as an English as a Second Language adult educator and teacher trainer in the Czech Republic, East Timor and the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
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