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Indigenous Partnerships Showing The Way I

On 11 June 2009 by the Bureau

One Arm Point Remote Community School is a K-11 school located 200km north of Broome on the Dampier Peninsular. Of the school’s approximately 100 students, 95 per cent are Indigenous.

The Bardi Cultural Program (BCP) has been introduced in response to a need identified by local Elders and other Bardi people.

It is a means to involving Elders, capturing local community knowledge and history and weaving it into the school curriculum.

Through a process of community consultation the school developed a cultural studies program.

An old classroom has been made into a cultural museum and serves as a narration of the cultural learning journeys that have been captured through the cultural studies program.

It is now also used for the teaching of the local indigenous language of Bardi.

Read more at http://www.daretolead.edu.au/servlet/Web?s=169694&p=STORY_One_Arm_Point_WA