{"id":3527,"date":"2007-01-23T11:17:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T11:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/01\/guest-blogger-john-giacon-on-the-ngaawagaray-summer-school\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:47:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:47:05","slug":"guest-blogger-john-giacon-on-the-ngaawagaray-summer-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/01\/guest-blogger-john-giacon-on-the-ngaawagaray-summer-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest blogger John Giacon on the NgaawaGaray summer school"},"content":{"rendered":"

STOP PRESS <\/b>
\nSBS news – Tuesday January 23, 2007 – is likely to have an item on NgaawaGaray. <\/em>
\nNgaawaGaray was a summer school in Gumbaynggirr and Gamilaraay – two New South Wales languages. [Ngaawa and Garay are the words for ‘language’ in Gumbaynggirr and Gamilaraay]. It was sponsored and organised by Muurrbay<\/a> and Many Rivers language centres from Nambucca and held at the Koori Centre at the University of Sydney on January 15 – 19. There were 16 students in the Gumbaynggirr course and 11 in Gamilaraay. The Gamilaraay course consisted of part of the ‘Gamilaraay 101’ – taught as ‘Guwaalmiya Gamilaraay’ – a first year subject at University of Sydney, and also taught in TAFE. The Gumbaynggirr course was adapted from the regular course run each year at Muurrbay.<\/p>\n


\nI was the senior teacher for Gamilaraay, with Des Crump and John Brown co-teaching. I found the experience a very rich one – one of teaching not just a subject but something that touched people personally. The students came from a range of backgrounds, though many of them are involved in education: schools, universities, community projects and Board of Studies. Their reaction was very enthusiastic, as seen is the extracts below from evaluations:
\n“The summer school was so relevant to my career as a teacher, to allow me to teach my language and to strengthen the identity, spirituality and confidence in my Aboriginal students and family.”
\n“Learning the language has been very tiring and makes you use your mouth and brain heaps. Organisation and teaching were great.”
\n“The Summer school is fantastic, and I hope this is the first of many. I learnt more than I thought possible. The Koori Centre and staff were wonderful – it was a really welcoming place. Thank you!”
\n“extremely inspiring – challenging, personally and mentally; great!”
\nIn the near future we will be reviewing the course and considering the possible of a repeat or even an expanded NgaawaGaray next year.
\nJohn Giacon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

STOP PRESS SBS news – Tuesday January 23, 2007 – is likely to have an item on NgaawaGaray. NgaawaGaray was a summer school in Gumbaynggirr and Gamilaraay – two New South Wales languages. [Ngaawa and Garay are the words for ‘language’ in Gumbaynggirr and Gamilaraay]. It was sponsored and organised by Muurrbay and Many Rivers … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-linguistics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4381,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}