{"id":3679,"date":"2008-04-15T09:15:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T09:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/04\/another-state-signs-on\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:46:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:46:51","slug":"another-state-signs-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/04\/another-state-signs-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Another State signs on.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aes.ssabsa.sa.edu.au\/languages.htm\">South Australia,<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ab-ed.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au\/go\/aboriginal-languages\">New South Wales<\/a>, another Australian State gets serious about bringing Indigenous languages into schools.<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qsa.qld.edu.au\/\">Queensland Studies Authority<\/a> has released a <a href=\"\/blog\/documents\/Languages%20POLICY_April%2008_A4sdo.pdf\">flyer<\/a> [.pdf] about Indigenous languages, affirming that, among other things:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;understanding the language backgrounds of Indigenous students is a critical factor in the successful learning of Standard Australian English as part of formal education in Queensland schools&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;it is valuable for all students to understand the language diversity of Australia&#8217;s Indigenous peoples&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nand finally, the promise..<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community perspectives on valuing, maintaining and reviving local languages will be supported through our products and services.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nA start, a start!  Good on the many people who have worked to get this up.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAnd, if you want to see what can be done, consider the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bced.gov.bc.ca\/policy\/policies\/language_educ.htm\">British Columbia Education policy<\/a>, which states that<br \/>\n&#8220;All students, especially those of Aboriginal ancestry, should have opportunities to learn an Aboriginal language.&#8221;<br \/>\nand<br \/>\n&#8220;Aboriginal language courses (as with all second language courses) should be developed appropriate to second language learners. As of the 1997\/98 school year, only aboriginal languages with provincial curriculum for Grades 5 to 8 will be eligible to meet the second language requirement (see below). The Board of Education and the local aboriginal people should collaborate to develop a language curriculum and resources.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After South Australia, and New South Wales, another Australian State gets serious about bringing Indigenous languages into schools. The Queensland Studies Authority has released a flyer [.pdf] about Indigenous languages, affirming that, among other things: &#8220;understanding the language backgrounds of Indigenous students is a critical factor in the successful learning of Standard Australian English as &#8230; <a title=\"Another State signs on..\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/04\/another-state-signs-on\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Another State signs on..\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indigenous-language-education"],"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\/3679","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=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4294,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions\/4294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}