The Genographic Legacy Fund aims to empower indigenous and traditional peoples on a local level while helping to raise awareness on a global level of the challenges and pressures facing these communities.
Support from the fund will be directed primarily toward education initiatives, cultural conservation, and linguistic preservation and revitalization efforts. Applicants must provide a record of current or prior work in support of indigenous education programs and/or cultural or linguistic conservation efforts.
The majority of the group responsible for project governance must be members of the indigenous community in which the project will be implemented. Projects are divided into two categories:
1) smaller, discrete projects that typically require amounts up to $25,000 and
2) more complex projects undertaken in conjunction with other entities, such as NGOs, local education institutions, or government agencies that require up to $100,000.
DEADLINES: June 15 and December 15, 2008
Forwarded by Daryn McKenny. Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Association.
7-11 December 2008, Melbourne
WIPC:E is a triennial conference of international significance that attracts peoples from around the globe to celebrate and share diverse cultures, traditions and knowledge with a focus on world Indigenous education.
The purpose of WIPC:E is to provide a forum to come together, share and learn and promote best practice in Indigenous education policies, programs and practice.
To be hosted by the Victorian Aboriginal Education Association on the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation, Melbourne, Australia from 7th-11th December 2008, WIPC:E 2008 will be a celebration of our diverse cultures, traditions and knowledge.
It will provide us with the opportunity to showcase our efforts to provide educational experiences suitable to our individual and unique communities and will be a time to rejoice in our strengths and capacity to uphold our traditions and knowledge systems.
It will also be a chance to consider how we, as Indigenous people, would like to see education shaped into the future to meet our needs.
News from the QSA Connect Newsletter: Indigenous languages policy
In April 2008 the Queensland Studies Authority (QSA) proudly launched the QSA Australian Indigenous languages policy. This statement acknowledges the importance of understanding, maintaining and promoting the diversity of Australian Indigenous languages spoken in Queensland and across Australia. The policy supports curriculum initiatives in assisting schools and communities to work in partnership to recognise and value local Indigenous languages.
The Indigenous languages policy (PDF 690K) acknowledges the need to understand the diversity of Australian languages, and the intercultural understandings gained when these languages are valued within the Queensland curriculum. This policy is supported by our Indigenous perspectives statement (PDF 554K) which has embedding Indigenous perspectives within the curriculum as its focus area for 2008.