Description
Book SynopsisThis book documents the impact of Stephen Harris’s works in Aboriginal education, Aboriginal learning styles, domains of language use and bilingual-bicultural education. It provides a summary and critique of Stephen Harris's key ideas, particularly those on bilingual-bicultural education. This book also profiles the man, his background, his beliefs and talents. It showcases contributions and personal reflections from Stephen’s family, wife, close colleagues, and many of those influenced by his work. This festschrift explores the professional life and work of Stephen Harris as an educator and anthropologist who worked in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Table of ContentsForeword
David McClay
Preface
Brian Devlin
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Short timeline
Part A
Introduction: an Overview of the Life of Stephen Harris
Jane Harris
From Start to Finish: a Man of Many Parts
Joy Kinslow Harris
Nomo Munanga, Main Kantriman (‘no Longer Just a White Person, but my Regional Kinsman’)
Terry Ngarritjin Kessaris
Language, Heart, and Mind: Can Aboriginal Languages be Revived?
John Harris
My Uncle and his Place in History
Jonathan Harris
Some Personal and Professional Reminiscences
Cos and Sue Russo
A poetic tribute
John Mukky Burke
PART B
Learning how to Learn in School
Beth Graham
Culture Domain Separation and Linguistic Interdependence: Correspondence with Stephen Harris 1982–1993
Jim Cummins
You Only learn to Read Once: Stephen Harris’s Insights
Frances Murray
Different Roles, Similar Goals: Devlin and Harris, 1979–2020
Brian Devlin
Milingimbi, 1970s
Michael Christie
A Pioneer, Mentor, Colleague and Friend
Merridy Malin
Code-mixing as a Means of Sustaining an Aboriginal Language: the Case of Ngarrindjeri in the Lower Murray Region of South Australia
Mary-Anne Gale
Opening Minds and Underpinning Cross-cultural Practices
Glenys Waters
Still Ahead of his Time
Wendy Baarda
PART C
A Brief History of Linguistics in the Northern Territory
Paul Black and Brian Devlin
‘Becoming Different’ in an Indigenous Education Context
Kathryn Gale
Carving out Domains for the use of a Re-awakening Language
Rob Amery
Muḻmuḻ—Flecks of Foam in an Everchanging Educational World: Community-Based Participatory Research
Kathryn McMahon
Stephen Harris and the Domain Separation Debate
Brian Devlin and Paul Black
The Enduring Voice of Harris in NT Aboriginal Education Policy Debates: Comments from an Aboriginal Scholar and Former Student
Gary Fry
Bibliography of Published and Unpublished work by Stephen Harris
Brian Devlin and Joy Kinslow Harris
Glossary
Index
