Learning journeys: Seven steps to stronger remote communities
Learning journeys: Seven steps to stronger remote communities Report
DKCRC Research Report
- Author(s): LaFlamme, M
- Published: 2011
- Publisher: Desert Knowledge CRC
- Volume: 77
Abstract: This report presents a method to clarify how remote Aboriginal groups want to build on their strengths and talents to design better communities for themselves that properly bring together country and culture as one system. Remote residents are full of creative ideas and plans for their country and community, but are rarely given the decision-making power to develop those ideas. Most management positions in communities are held by outsiders, who manage the resources (funding sources, knowledge networks, political contacts and material flows) that influence a community. These limitations placed on Aboriginal residents’ ability to significantly manage their own circumstances have contributed to ‘gaps’ in health, education, employment and other outcomes compared to the non-Aboriginal professionals who service them. Local people need skills to systematically try out ways to ‘close the gap’ between local and outside control. I therefore studied how elders, adults and service providers saw their communities and country, and the methods they used to improve their wellbeing.
- Urls: http://www.nintione.com.au/resource/NintiOneResearchReport_77_LearningJourneysSevenStepstoStrongerRemoteCommunities.pdf
- Publisher Location: Alice Springs