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Celebrating Indigenous KnowledgeAuxiliary Children's Conference
April 21-23, 2004 Macquarie University, Sydney Australia Registration Deadline March 21st |
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A children's conference on "celebrating indigenous knowledge" will be held parallel to the Indigenous Knowledge and Bioprospecting conference. Workshops appropriate to age groups will be held on indigenous language, art, music, dance and folklore. This idea was initially inspired by an appreciation of the need to facilitate greater attendance by women participants. It was thought that rather than just providing child minding, a parallel conference would be offered. This is in the hope of conveying the long-term nature of this consultation process and an indication of the way in which academic culture can be influenced by traditional indigenous concerns of building child-centred communities. This is also considered important in that it facilitates family consultation on the issues of the conference. This last point is important, because often academics have little time with their families, are bound by the specialised and individualistic contexts of their work, and do not often discuss the complex nature of their work at home. This encourages a very different culture of family participation and gives the child a sense of value that will undoubtedly manifest itself in their future capacity to carry their own insights further. Of particular focus in the lead up to the conference will be on creating educational resources (through research projects) that contribute towards facilitating confidence and self-esteem in indigenous children based on reinforcing a vision of how their own culture has wisdom and knowledge of great value to the world's civilization.
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For further information contact Chris Jones:
Copyright © 2002 Craig E. Jones and Chris B. Jones |
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