At the heart of learning (series paper 2 of 4): Witulya mulapa nganana mantjintjaku: From cultural devastation to cultural reinvention
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2014
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Minutjukur, M.
Osborne, S.
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AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2014; 10(1):15-22
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For remote Central Australian Aboriginal communities, the world has changed completely andirrevocably in the space of a lifetime. Drawing on Jonathan Lear’s (2006) Radical Hope, theauthors highlight the comparative struggles outlined in Lear’s refl ection on the life of Crow Indianchief Plenty Coups. For Anangu (Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara people), the same question thatconfronted Plenty Coups arises: “How can Anangu pursue a ‘virtuous’ Anangu existence in aworld where ‘being Anangu’ no longer ‘makes any sense’?” The authors explore the possibilitiesof choosing cultural re- invention over resigning to a sense of “the end” and consider how therecognition and retention of long- held values might benefi t the broader experience of education,rather than be considered as a barrier or constraint to “success”.
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Copyright 2014 Nga Pae o te Maramatanga, New Zealand's Indigenous Centre of Research Excellence