Jerry Schwab
Land as 'third space': Towards an educational and social re-engagement of Indigenous youth in remote Australia
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
The educational and social disengagement of Indigenous youth in many remote communities in Northern Australia is well documented. A cursory reading of media reports and opinion pieces uncovers many who can be blamed: schools, parents, teachers, government, socialists, anthropologists, linguists and even film makers.
Literacy and remote Indigenous youth: Why social practice matters
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Writing about literacy in the remote Aboriginal context rarely considers anthropological aspects such as whether literacy has been incorporated into social practice, and how we understand change, transmission and transformation in the evolving social practices and cultural conceptions of reading and writing across the generations in the remote world. In this seminar Jerry Schwab and Inge Kral suggest that, in addition to schooling, everyday social practice is critical to literacy acquisition, maintenance and development in remote contexts.
Options for Warlpiri Education and Training
Topical Issue 8 / 2007
June 2007 -
Final Report to the Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Advisory Committee: Options for Education and Training, by R.G. Schwab, 15 September 2006. A comprehensive report exploring a variety of options for remote education and training. Edited web version.
“Send in the Army!”
Topical Issue 6 / 2006
July 2006 - Australian Policy Online reporting on research by R.G. (Jerry) Schwab
This article from Australian Policy Online describes how Jerry Schwab is exploring practical options from Canada for re-engaging remote area Aboriginal youth through Indigenous junior ranger schemes. Jerry's research is described in more detail in CAEPR Discussion Paper 281.
"Send in the Army!" , Australian Policy Online, posted 05 July 2006.
Literacy for Life: A Scoping Study for a Community Literacy Empowerment Project
Topical Issue 11 / 2004
October 2004 - Literacy for Life
A report prepared for the community of Wugularr, the Jawoyn Association and The Fred Hollows Foundation by R.G. (Jerry) Schwab and Dale Sutherland, CAEPR, The Australian National University.
In 1999, CAEPR carried out research in the Katherine region that focused on food provision, nutrition and health service delivery to the Aboriginal people in the region. The research was funded by The Fred Hollows Foundation and sponsored by the Jawoyn Association.
Principles and implications of Aboriginal sharing
Issue Brief 17 / 1997
Sharing and reciprocity in Aboriginal communities are part of a complex cultural system in which individuals and groups provide economic assistance to one another. Sharing can also be understood as a mechanism through which Aboriginal people display and confirm their social relationships with each other. Yet the type of sharing displayed is neither simple nor automatic but involves careful, strategic decision-making and behaviours.
Current patterns of Indigenous participation in higher education
Issue Brief 16 / 1997
Indigenous participation in higher education has increased steadily in recent years, yet a closer look at those increases reveals significant differences when Indigenous students are compared with other Australian students.
After 20 years, where are the independent Indigenous schools?
Issue Brief 15 / 1997
The recent National Review of Education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (in 1995) called for research and analysis of the immediate and long-term complexities of building community-controlled education for Indigenous Australians.
In spite of over 20 years of Government promotion of self-determination in education as a pathway to better educational outcomes for Indigenous Australians:
Twenty years of policy recommendations for Indigenous education: overview and research implications
Discussion Paper 92 / 1995
Abstract:
This discussion paper presents an exploratory overview of Australia's Indigenous education policy spanning the years 1975-95. The paper provides a brief description of the political evolution of that policy and focuses on the three major national Indigenous education reviews of the past 20 years: the Report to the Schools Commission by the Aboriginal Consultative Group, the Report of the Aboriginal Education Policy Task Force and the National Review of Education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
The calculus of reciprocity: Principles and implications of Aboriginal sharing
Discussion Paper 100 / 1995
Abstract:
Over the past two decades a rapidly expanding body of policy research has emerged related to the place of Indigenous Australians in the wider economy. Traditionally, the policy focus of much of that research has been on formal supply-side and demand-side issues, while the microscopic, cultural experience of Indigenous Australians has tended to be overlooked.
