Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140100290

Funded Activity Summary

Closing other gaps: Yolngu perspectives on and proposals for two-ways learning to improve intercultural communication and policy. Current efforts in Indigenous affairs to ‘close the gap’ have not succeeded in sustainably improving intercultural communications or social and environmental outcomes, particularly in remote locations. Indigenous knowledge authorities have thought long and hard about these issues. In a longstanding collaboration with Yol?u knowledge authorities, this project will develop a replicable two-ways learning approach to communications to inform cross-cultural collaborations, developing a Yol?u mathematics framework that improves tourists’ understanding of human-environment relationships. The research will examine tourist and Yol?u experience and consider policy implications of a framework that counters ontological separation of people from place.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 17-03-2014

End Date: 16-12-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $220,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies | Social and Cultural Geography | Human Geography

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Public Services Policy Advice and Analysis | Communication Across Languages and Culture | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture |

Other Keywords

Communication Across Languages and Culture | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | Human Geography | Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies | Public Services Policy Advice and Analysis | Social and Cultural Geography

Related Links