isfire 14 feb 2013 education systems melodie bat
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Presentation to ISFIRE, Perth, 14 February 2013TRANSCRIPT
Red dirt thinking on education systems: from remote to local
Melodie Bat (presented by John Guenther)
Ninti One Objectives
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• Address social and economic disadvantage of people in remote regions of Australia
• Find solutions to economic exclusion
• Increase economic participation of peoples
• Improve understanding of Australia’s remote regions
• Increase the skills and capacity of people
• Enhance and protect the natural environment
• Understand the impact of climate change on environment and people
Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic
Participation Goals: 1. To develop new ways to build resilience and strengthen regional
communities and economies across remote Australia.
2. To build new enterprises and strengthen existing industries that, provide jobs, livelihoods and incomes in remote areas.
3. To improve the education and training pathways in remote areas so that people have better opportunities to participate in the range of economies that exist.
Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation projects
• Regional economies • Population Mobility and Labour Markets • Enduring Community Value from Mining • Climate Change Adaptation and Energy Futures
• Enterprise development • Aboriginal Cultural Enterprise • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Economies • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tourism Product • Carbon Economies in Remote Australia • Plant Business • Precision Pastoral Management Tools
• Investing in people • Pathways to Employment • Interplay Between Health, Wellbeing, Education and Employment • Remote Education Systems
http://crc-rep.com/research
Remote Education Systems sites
‘Remote’ is all about where you stand: red dirt thinking
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What is an education system?
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A national education system
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Before school
•Early childhood education and care
•0-5 years
Primary school
•5-12 years •Transition/Prep to Year 6*
Secondary school
•12-18 years •Year 7-12
Tertiary • VET • Higher
Education
Australia’s education systems: The Government schools system
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Orange = policy and funding Blue = reporting and accounting
Federal bureaucracy
Federal government
State/Territory Government
State/Territory Bureaucracy
Schools Community Parents
The decentralised Government schools system
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Federal government
Federal bureaucracy
State/Territory Government
State/Territory Bureaucracy
Independent Public school
Parents
Australia’s education systems: The Catholic schools system
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Federal government
State/Territory Government
CEC
Catholic Education Offices
Schools
Diocese
Parents
State/Territory Bureaucracy
Federal bureaucracy
Community
Australia’s education systems: The Independent schools system
Parents Schools
State/Territory Government
Federal government
Federal bureaucracy
State/Territory Bureaucracy
Independent Authority
Community
The Independent schools system: small community schools
Parents
Schools
State/Territory Government
Federal government
Federal bureaucracy
State/Territory Bureaucracy
Community
Which system is the most successful?
• All • Or… • None • For very remote Australia
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The ‘remote’ education system
• Solutions to these issues still prove evasive, so new paradigms may be needed to help address them.(Thomson et al., 2011, p. 299)
• Shift from ‘remote’ to ‘local’ • Think about people not money
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Thinking about innovation
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Leadbeater, C. and Wong, A. 2010. Learning from extremes, Cisco, San Jose. Retrieved April 2012 from http://www.cisco.com/web/about/citizenship/socio-economic/docs/LearningfromExtremes_WhitePaper.pdf.
Thinking about innovation
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Hannon, V., Patton, A. and Temperley, J. 2011. Developing an Innovation Ecosystem for Education. White Paper, December 2011, Cisco. Retrieved August 2012 from http://gelpspace.org/sites/default/files/related_documents/developing_an_innovation_ecosystem_for_education_cisco-iu.pdf.
Or…. Shift away from categorisation modelling to sense-making modelling
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Complex adaptive systems: The Cynefin Framework as a sense making model: next steps
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cognitive-edge.com
Community of practice
• The domain: schooling and education • The community: families, children, teachers, members of other
organisations, community leaders, education advisers and managers etc. • The practice: the shared experience of learning • (E Wenger, 2009)
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Image source: http://orgnet.com/emergent.html
Local design: one example
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Ngurra-kurlu: A way of working with Warlpiri people
• Wanta Jampijinpa Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu (Steven Jampijinpa Patrick)
• Miles Holmes • (Lance) Alan Box
• Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu WJ, Holmes M and Box L. 2008. Ngurra-kurlu: A way
of working with Warlpiri people, DKCRC • Report 41. Desert Knowledge CRC, Alice Springs. • http://www.desertknowledgecrc.com.au/resource/DKCRC-Report-41-
Ngurra-kurlu.pdfy
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Warlpiri country
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(Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu WJ, Holmes M and Box L. 2008. Ngurra-kurlu: A way of working with Warlpiri people, DKCRC, Report 41. Desert Knowledge CRC, Alice Springs, http://www.desertknowledgecrc.com.au/resource/DKCRC-Report-41-Ngurra-kurlu.pdfy, p. 1)
Ngurra-kurlu is a representation of the five key elements of Warlpiri culture: Land (also called Country), Law, Language, Ceremony, and Skin (also called Kinship). It is a concept that highlights the primary relationships between these elements, while also creating an awareness of their deeper complexities. Understanding ngurra-kurlu has many benefits for Warlpiri and also for those who work with them. It can be thought of as: • a template for the whole of Warlpiri culture • an efficient pedagogy (way of teaching) • a process for building identity and self esteem • a way of looking after the health of people and the health of country • a framework to create successful projects that are relevant to Warlpiri
people. (Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu WJ, Holmes M and Box L. 2008. Ngurra-kurlu: A way of working with Warlpiri people, DKCRC, Report 41. Desert Knowledge CRC, Alice Springs, http://www.desertknowledgecrc.com.au/resource/DKCRC-Report-41-Ngurra-kurlu.pdfy, p. 1)
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Ngurra-kurlu: A way of working with Warlpiri people
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Walya the Land
Kuwarri the Law
Juju/manyuwana Ceremony/dance
Jaru Language
Warlalja-yapa Family
(Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu WJ, Holmes M and Box L. 2008. Ngurra-kurlu: A way of working with Warlpiri people, DKCRC, Report 41. Desert Knowledge CRC, Alice Springs, http://www.desertknowledgecrc.com.au/resource/DKCRC-Report-41-Ngurra-kurlu.pdfy, pp 3-4)
What would a Local Education System look like?
• Building the new paradigm from the ground up • Red Dirt Thinking • Don’t establish it and then evaluate it • Rather, map it and watch it evolve
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Contact
Melodie Bat [email protected] 0427 226 561
John Guenther [email protected] 0412 125 661 Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation http://www.crc-rep.com
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