dc.contributor.advisor | Baker, Sarah | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Grant, Catherine | |
dc.contributor.author | Kruger, Candace | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-23T02:16:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-23T02:16:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.25904/1912/1740 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365270 | |
dc.description.abstract | Knowledge of Indigenous language and identity for Australian Indigenous children is vital. Despite this there has been little research into the effects that living culture practice affords Australian Indigenous children through learning heritage language. Yarrabil (to sing) is one way in which Indigenous youth can participate in learning Indigenous language. Through a series of surveys, wula bora (focus group) sessions, interviews and reflections, the jarjum (children) of the Yugambeh language region assisted to discover how the process of participation in an urban Aboriginal children’s language choir can play an integral part in youth leadership, language acquisition, well-being (self-efficacy), and Identity and Aboriginality. The research also demonstrates how a language choir can safe-guard language and culture whilst building socio-cultural capital within an Indigenous community. The National Indigenous Languages Survey Report of 2005 listed the Aboriginal language Yugambeh of the Gold Coast, Logan and Scenic Rim regions of South-East Queensland, Australia as endangered. This thesis investigates an alternate way to girrebba (wake up) a sleeping language and engage youth in the process of learning their heritage language. The ‘Yugambeh Language and Song project’ provides academic knowledge in a relatively unstudied field, supports living culture practice and provides a model to assist other Indigenous communities to sing their language alive. | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.publisher | Griffith University | |
dc.publisher.place | Brisbane | |
dc.rights.copyright | The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise. | |
dc.subject.keywords | Indigenous language, Aboriginal Australians | |
dc.subject.keywords | Yugambeh Language and Song Project | |
dc.subject.keywords | Choirs, Aboriginal Australians | |
dc.subject.keywords | The National Indigenous Languages Survey Report of 2005 | |
dc.subject.keywords | Endangered indigenous languages, Aboriginal Australians | |
dc.subject.keywords | Yugambeh Youth Choir | |
dc.title | In The Bora Ring: Yugambeh Language and Song Project - An Investigation into the Effects of Participation in the ‘Yugambeh Youth Choir’, an Aboriginal Language Choir for Urban Indigenous Children | |
dc.type | Griffith thesis | |
gro.faculty | Arts, Education and Law | |
gro.rights.copyright | The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
dc.rights.accessRights | Public | |
gro.identifier.gurtID | gu1504745349026 | |
gro.thesis.degreelevel | Thesis (Masters) | |
gro.thesis.degreeprogram | Master of Arts Research (MARes) | |
gro.department | School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science | |
gro.griffith.author | Kruger, Candace | |