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ERIC Number: EJ1436198
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Sep
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0814-0626
EISSN: EISSN-2049-775X
Keepers of the Flame: Songspirals Are a University for Us
Bawaka Country; Laklak Burarrwanga; Ritjilili Ganambarr; Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs; Banbapuy Ganambarr; Djawundil Maymuru; Kate Lloyd; Lara Daley; Sandie Suchet-Pearson; Sarah Wright
Australian Journal of Environmental Education, v39 n3 p279-292 2023
"Songspirals are a university for us, they are a map of understandings" (Gay'wu Group of Women, 2019, p. 33). This paper is authored by Bawaka Country, acknowledging Country's ability to teach and share. Country is homeland and place. Country is everything and the relationships that bring everything to life. Country is knowledge. This paper is shaped and enabled by songspirals. Songspirals are sung and cried by Yolnu people in north east Arnhem Land, Australia, to awaken Country, to make and remake the life-giving connections between people and place. The Gon-gurtha songspiral leads this paper, showing us how a Yolnu Country-led pedagogy centres Country's active agency by learning through, with, and as Country. This pedagogy shares with us the ongoing connections within and between generations to ensure that knowledge remains strong and that sharing is done the right way, according to Yolnu Rom, Law/Lore. This learning is predicated on relationality and responsibility. It is a more-than-human learning in which human knowing is decentred and Country is knowledgeable. It is a learning which recognises and respects its limits and it is a learning in which the ongoing sovereignty of Yolnu people is front and centre.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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