Learning spaces youth, literacy and new media in remote Indigenous Australia

"This work offers us the rare opportunity to step inside innovative uses of technologies, mergers of global technologies into local knowledge, and community advocacy of local history and ideology ... The young people who move through these pages are motivated and proud of having had the opportu...

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Main Author: Kral, Inge
Other Authors: Schwab, Robert G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Acton, A.C.T. ANU E Press 2012©2012, 2012
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:"This work offers us the rare opportunity to step inside innovative uses of technologies, mergers of global technologies into local knowledge, and community advocacy of local history and ideology ... The young people who move through these pages are motivated and proud of having had the opportunities that make possible their linking together of historical knowledge and contemporary means of communication and performance. The means illustrated here have enabled them to develop skills that will help them move into the future as adults engaged with the health and life of their own communities, connected to their language and culture as their way of being in the world of the local so as to know the world of the global." Professor Shirley Brice Heath Stanford University, USA.
Physical Description:1 volume