Using dialogue to support 'Ganma'

Title
Using dialogue to support 'Ganma'
Publication Date
2021
Author(s)
Thraves, Genevieve
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6770-4131
Email: gthraves@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:gthraves
Dhurrkay, Miriam
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
The Australian Association for Research in Education
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/71011
Abstract

Ganma (2000) is the point where saltwater (non-Aboriginal knowledge) and fresh water (Yolŋu knowledge) meet. The “great sharing” of these two bodies of water, supports a “rich habitat” (Bat and Guenther, 2013:128) in the newly formed lagoon. Ganma has been used as a metaphor to demonstrate the benefits of a collaborative approach to knowledge generation, and it can be used as a foundation for negotiating culturally contested knowledge arenas, including Education. This presentation reports a study that extended an existing dialogic process to the field of gifted education to support the realisation of Ganma. Three Yolŋu Elders and three teachers collaborated in a facilitated dialogue to develop an appropriate talent development model for gifted Yolŋu youth at the study site, a boarding school in Darwin. Participant satisfaction with the dialogue revealed it to be an appropriate process demonstrates for facilitating Ganma.

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