Abstracts, Seminar 5 |
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Storytelling
Ms. Eva Barongo, Uganda
Teacher of University Deborah Dunleavy, Canada
Dr. Margaret Zeegers, Australia
Former Teacher Librarian Jenni Woodroffe , Australia
Lecturer & translator Mickias Musiyiwa , Zimbabwe
Ranjana Goyal, India
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TOPIC; HOW THE ORAL STORYTELLING INFUENCES THE WRITTEN.
The presentation under this topic will discuss the following: 1. Both oral and writtenliterature have the same objectives: The oral storytelling aims at inormimi informing and entertaining the listening audience while the written literature target the individual reader. 2. Both types of literature are based on the history and experences of sociiety and the people. 3. However, the written literature has its roots in the unwritten idea which is first express orally and then translated into a written word. Almost all written literature begins as an oral story whether about news, event or socio-cultural changes 4. The paper will attempt to show various linkages beteen oral storyteling and the written stories, drawing examples from diverse historical and contemperary written literature. 5. By way of format, the paper will have an introduction and a conclusion and the length will be between two and three thousanad words.
mailto:barongo@africaonline.co.ug
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Title: Story telling, art, music and dance: What it means to be Australian in the context of Indigenous Australian History and a Regional Australian Primary School
Presenter: Dr Margaret Zeegers School of education University of Ballarat President: IBBY Australian National Section
Abstract: This paper reports on the establishment of an Indigenous Australian artists-in-residence program at a regional Australian primary school, foregrounding its Indigenous Australian History which is virtually ignored in school curriculum. Children work with Indigenous Australian story-tellers, artists, dancers and musicians to explore non-written texts for a critical appreciation of how their school has been positioned in the physical landscape on traditional owners' land, and in the historical landscape, where Indigenous Australian roles and contributions are marginalised at best and denied at worst. As a result, the children create visual texts of their own: tangible, durable artefacts derived from stories they have engaged as part of the children's acknowledgment of their own school's positioning in history and on the land.
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am President of IBBY Australia National Section, and will be taking up
the Associate Editor role for Book Bird as part of this role, and so you
see, I have to be at the Congress. However, my university will not give
me leave to go unless I am also prepared to present a paper. I do so hopethat
you can help me.
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1. Topic: Grace Bussell – A Childhood Heroine.
2. Abstract: Growing up the story of Grace Bussell was a familiar one. It was in a school reader, and known by my parents, grandparents, teachers and most of the local community, the small town of Donnybrook in the south-west of Western Australia . With the advent of post-war immigration, the influx of refugees, changes in the curriculum and teachers coming from backgrounds where English is not the first language in the home, many no longer know her story. On the 1 st December, 1876 sixteen year old Grace Bussell awoke from a dream of a sinking ship, with the passengers, including women and children floundering in the sea. Busy preparing the Christmas pudding, the family was interrupted by their Aboriginal stockman, Sam Isaacs, telling them of a ship in distress some miles further south from their home Wallcliffe, Margaret River . Grace and Sam rode to the rescue. Their horses made their way down a steep cliff and plunged into the sea. It took four hours to battle the strong undertow to bring the 50 passengers and crew to safety. News of the heroic rescue flashed around the world. Within 7 weeks, Grace's mother had died, exhausted but hospitable to the end, with the larder emptied. 3. Biographical Information. A former teacher librarian and tertiary lecturer, Jenni Woodroffe is now retired and has six grandchildren. She has been on the story trail through North America, Europe, Asia, New Zealand and Australia to explore the backgrounds, variants and connections of the many tales now shared with children and adults. A past President of The Storytelling Guild of Australia (WA) Inc Jenni has organized workshops and festivals, as well as being storyteller in residence at a primary school in 2007 to encourage others to tell their story. Jenni is a committee member and newsletter editor of the WA Branch of The Childen's Book Council of Australia, and was Co-Convenor of the National CBCA Conference held in Perth in 2002. 4. Contact Details. Jenni Woodroffe Unit 9/85 South Terrace Como 6152 Western Australia Tel: 61 08 9367 4759 Email: jennij@iinet.net.au Website:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~jennij/forestmagic/
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