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Title: | The Relationship Between Low Adult Literacy Levels and Aboriginal Family and Community Engagement in Educational Decision Making | Contributor(s): | Ratcliffe, Ruth (author); Boughton, Bob (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2019 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/28004 | Open Access Link: | https://journal.spera.asn.au/index.php/AIJRE/article/view/180![]() |
Abstract: | This article draws on work with communities in the rural and remote towns of Brewarrina, Wilcannia and Enngonia, New South Wales (NSW) to explore the relationship between low adult literacy levels and the continuing alienation of Aboriginal communities from educational decision making. Building on the analysis of community/school relations conducted by scholars such as Chris Sarra, Jay Phillips, Allan Luke and Kevin Lowe, we contend that addressing the problem of low adult literacy is necessary to improve relationships between communities and schools in widespread and sustainable ways. Communities who have participated in the Yes, I Can! Aboriginal Adult Literacy Campaign help us to understand a number of important issues, including, the extent of disenfranchisement that is associated with inadequate adult literacy, the enormity of the challenges faced by previously low-literate and disengaged people to re-engage in community life, the additional pressures placed on literate members of the community when many people have minimal literacy, and the relationship between low rates of adult literacy and the persistence of deficit thinking on the part of schools. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Grant Details: | ARC/LP16000257 | Source of Publication: | Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 29(1), p. 1-16 | Publisher: | Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA) | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1839-7387 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 130101 Continuing and Community Education 130301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 390301 Continuing and community education | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 930501 Education and Training Systems Policies and Development 939901 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 160205 Policies and development | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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