[Anthropgrad] CAEPR Seminar: Jerry Schwab, Inge Kral (04/06/2008): Literacy & remote Indigenous youth

[Katarina Ferro]

Wednesday 4th June 2008, 12.30 - 2.00pm
Humanities Conference Room, First Floor, A.D. Hope Bldg #14 (opposite 
Chifley Library),
The Australian National University, Canberra.


Literacy and remote Indigenous youth: Why social practice matters
Jerry Schwab (Fellow, CAEPR) and Inge Kral (Post-Doctoral Fellow, CAEPR)

Abstract: 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. 
Attention will be drawn to the social generational differences and 
changing modes of literacy from mission era alphabetic literacy 
practices to the digital literacy practices of youth today. The seminar 
will focus on the important role that youth-oriented organisations and 
programs have to play in supporting access to literacy resources and 
stimulating learning that is attractive to youth in remote contexts 
where school attendance and retention rates are poor.


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