TY - JOUR
T1 - Nhaltjan dhu ḻarrum ga dharaŋan dhuḏi-dhäwuw ŋunhi limurr dhu gumurrbunanhamirr ga waŋanhamirr, Yolŋu ga Balanda
T2 - How we come together to explore and understand the deeper story of intercultural communication in a Yolŋu (First Nations Australian) community
AU - Armstrong, Emily
AU - Maypilama, Ḻäwurrpa
AU - Bukulatjpi, Yuŋgirrŋa
AU - Gapany, Dorothy
AU - Fasoli, Lyn
AU - Ireland, Sarah
AU - Baker, Rachel Dikul
AU - Hewat, Sally
AU - Lowell, Anne
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge the participants who contributed to this collaborative work and remained engaged and supportive throughout the long process. We also acknowledge the support of Yalu Aboriginal Corporation, Galiwin’ku, through sharing work space with members of our team when needed. The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and publication of this article: a Speech Pathology Australia New Researcher Grant (2018–2020), the Charles Darwin University (College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society) Indigenous Participants Fund, and an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) scholarship.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2023/6
Y1 - 2023/6
N2 - This study explored intercultural communication from the perspectives of partners from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. We used a culturally responsive form of video-reflexive ethnography to study intercultural communication processes between Yolŋu, pronounced Yolngu (First Nations people from the region that is now called North-East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia) and Balanda (non-Indigenous people). Yolŋu and Balanda researchers worked collaboratively throughout the study (2017–2021). In a very remote Yolŋu community in northern Australia, five early childhood assessment interactions were recorded and analysed by the 40 Yolŋu and Balanda participants. Researchers analysed data collaboratively using an approach aligned with constructivist grounded theory. We connected key research findings about intercultural communication processes to a place-based metaphor which foregrounds Yolŋu cultural knowledge and encourages reflection on deeper ways of thinking about how we connect, collaborate and communicate interculturally.
AB - This study explored intercultural communication from the perspectives of partners from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. We used a culturally responsive form of video-reflexive ethnography to study intercultural communication processes between Yolŋu, pronounced Yolngu (First Nations people from the region that is now called North-East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia) and Balanda (non-Indigenous people). Yolŋu and Balanda researchers worked collaboratively throughout the study (2017–2021). In a very remote Yolŋu community in northern Australia, five early childhood assessment interactions were recorded and analysed by the 40 Yolŋu and Balanda participants. Researchers analysed data collaboratively using an approach aligned with constructivist grounded theory. We connected key research findings about intercultural communication processes to a place-based metaphor which foregrounds Yolŋu cultural knowledge and encourages reflection on deeper ways of thinking about how we connect, collaborate and communicate interculturally.
KW - collaborative research
KW - early childhood assessment
KW - First Nations Australian
KW - intercultural communication
KW - metaphor
KW - Yolŋu
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85159134497&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/11771801231169337
DO - 10.1177/11771801231169337
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85159134497
SN - 1177-1801
VL - 19
SP - 334
EP - 344
JO - AlterNative
JF - AlterNative
IS - 2
ER -