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Culturally based learning needs of Korowai students in a lowland‑remote area of Indonesian Papua: school physical environment and building design
The Australian Educational Researcher, Vol.51, pp.611-629
2024
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Abstract
This study explored the culturally based learning needs of Korowai students living in a lowland-remote area in Papua to address the question of how education in this part of Indonesia could be inclusive and engaging for indigenous students and their community. Case study was selected as it has potential to reveal detailed structured information and in-depth description of people and their experiences within a particular location, time and socio-political circumstance. The case study school was purposively chosen, due to its uniqueness of being situated in a remote, hunter-gatherer community that only recently began to modernise. School physical environment and building design was one of the identified themes that emerged in the case study school. This theme included some sub-themes, namely (1) the school building design, (2) forest as the school’s physical environment, and (3) school garden and animal husbandry. The Korowai students brought social and cultural capital and expectations to their local school that differed from those of traditional Indonesian school expectations and presented different learning needs. How the local school and teachers responded to these varied expectations and learning needs also differed and revealed further needs for differentiation in education. These points of differentiation include needs in their physical environment: to build some classrooms in the style of Korowai treehouse dwellings and to replant forest and food trees close to the school to provide students with a sense of cultural connection and school belonging.
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- Title
- Culturally based learning needs of Korowai students in a lowland‑remote area of Indonesian Papua: school physical environment and building design
- Authors
- Albertus Fiharsono (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary AccessMichael D Carey (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary AccessMervyn Hyde (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education - LegacyHarriot Beazley (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyWigati Yektiningtyas-Modouw (Author) - Cenderawasih University
- Publication details
- The Australian Educational Researcher, Vol.51, pp.611-629
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1007/s13384-023-00615-x
- ISSN
- 2210-5328; 0311-6999
- Copyright note
- This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Data Availability
- The data are available in the Appendices of the PhD thesis this article is based upon at https://doi.org/10.25907/00096
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education - Legacy; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; Engage Research Lab; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99707798602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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