Writing words-right way! : literacy and social practice in the Ngaanyatjarra world
Details:
Title
Writing words-right way! : literacy and social practice in the Ngaanyatjarra world,
Creator
Kral, Inge Birgita,
Collection
E-Publications,
E-Books,
PublicationNT,
Thesis,
Date
2007-03,
Abstract
"This thesis is an ethnography of literacy. It is also a study of the social process of learning. It focuses on a remote Aboriginal group in the Western Desert of Australia. Although the last out of the desert (the first wave came out in the 1930s and the last in the 1960s), the Ngaanyatjarra encountered an unusual sequence of relatively benign post-contact experiences and were never removed from their traditional country." - Abstract,
Notes
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 2007.,
Table of contents
Abstract -- Literacy in the Ngaanyatjarra world - setting the context -- Mission time -- Native welfare time -- Government time -- Literacy and the practice of everyday life -- Transmitting orality and literacy as cultural practice -- Young adults - change, learning and engagement -- Conclusion -- Appendix A-J -- References -- Additional resources,
Language
English,
Subject
Literacy,
Aboriginal Australians,
Warburton Range Mission (W.A.),
Education,
Mount Margaret Aboriginal Mission (W.A.),
Ngaanyatjarra (Australian people),
Western Australia,
Publisher name
(Publisher not known),
Place of publication
(Place not known),
Series
Thesis,
Format
vi, 419 leaves : some colour illustrations, facsimiles, maps ; 30 cm,