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Opposite top: at our July 3, 2009 celebration and project presentation in Chananaw, Maria gives Rubfin (Rufina) Liyaban the first look at book 21, the story of Kimfangunan, the pregnant woman who wanted to become tattooed. This book was illustrated by an Ichananaw, Rubfin’s son-in-law Randy Oplay. Opposite center: the presentation of educational materials on July 3, 2009 was preceded and followed by dancing and beating of gongs. We joined in, Maria dancing with the women and Edwin beating a gong. Opposite bottom: at the Australian Embassy’s NAIDOC Week event on July 10, 2009 Ichananaw project supervisor Agom (Arlene) Dawing (center) met for the first time project partner Ateneo Center for Educational Development’s Managing Director, Carmela C. Oracion (left). Here, they pose for the media with the Charge d’Affaires Steven Scott and VIPs from the government and non-government sectors which work with indigenous peoples. Below: also on July 3, 2009, Agom (Arlene) Dawing (second from left in the foreground) and Maria (center, holding a stack of books) explain what the Ichananaw Children’s Storybooks are to the assembled community. Agom points to the first book in the series of 21, the story of the magic Filluruu shell, explaining that it was retold by Fai (Ernesta) Aga-id (left) and illustrated voluntarily by a Filipino artist, Lesley Lim. Indigenizing Education in a Kalinga Public School | 20 almost all of the teachers, along with other Ichananaws. This was useful in that it gave the teachers an example of an alternative teaching method they may wish to apply, to deal with the problems they face with having to teach in English and Filipino while the schools’ pupils start out only speaking their indigenous language, Chinananaw. Also, we hope that this initial opportunity to meet marked the beginning of a fruitful relationship between Gloria and the school. As the seminar was conducted in the summer, and the new school year has only just started, it is still too early to see any changes within the school as a result of this exposure, but we received positive feedback from the teachers at the end of the seminar. Initiated a community-wide census In response to the barangay captain’s request, Maria designed and initiated a barangay-wide census, the results of which would benefit the barangay, the barangay health clinic and the school. In April and May 2009, half the households were surveyed by Maria, with assistance from several Ichananaws. In late May 2009, Maria trained the barangay midwife Manay (Marcelina) Sagmayaw in the surveying technique, enabling her to complete the census. Maria hopes to provide the community with an interim report on the findings to date, to be communicated via email.
Thank yous and goodbyes <strong>Project</strong> handover and wrap-up We arranged a series of events to conclude the project, first in Chananaw and then in Manila. On July 3, 2009 we hosted a community-wide celebration cum project presentation, farewell and general thanksgiving for our five months’ stay. The event had all the trappings of a typical Ichananaw ‘occasion’: gongs were beaten; there was dancing; elders composed songs on the spot about our time in Chananaw, in the ullalim style for which Kalinga is famous; and the entire community ate their fill of rice, pork and forat (broth). Intertwined with this, we explained and presented the educational materials we had developed and produced, one by one, to the Dananao Elementary School and thanked the community for sharing the entire experience with us. In Manila, we presented our project as the centerpiece of the Australian Embassy’s NAIDOC Week celebration: a morning tea held at the Australia Centre in Makati on July 10, 2009. This provided several of the different groups who had contributed to the project with a unique chance to meet each other: four of the Ichananaws who had been central to our work in Chananaw came to Manila to attend the event, along with key members of the Ateneo Center for Educational Development, Cartwheel Foundation, Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan, and Volunteering for International Development from Australia. Also on July 10, 2009 we held a dinner for the Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan artists who had contributed to our project, to thank them and to present each artist with a complementary copy of the book he or she had illustrated, and the collective with a full set of the storybooks for their library.
Page 1 and 2: Project Report Indigenizing Educati
Page 3 and 4: Chananaw is surrounded by terraced
Page 5 and 6: Once upon a time… Project backgro
Page 7 and 8: The project at a glance Timeframe P
Page 9 and 10: Arranging support Obtaining funding
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Page 13 and 14: Maria drafted the written English t
Page 15 and 16: The tangible results Project output
Page 17 and 18: The intangible results Project outc
Page 19: issues. It is possible that the net
Page 23 and 24: Friends first Probably the single m
Page 25 and 26: What challenged us? The main challe
Page 27 and 28: Publishing for a wider audience? Al
Page 29 and 30: Appendices Project schedule and pro
Page 31 and 32: Appendix 2. Philippine Daily Inquir
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Page 35 and 36: culture, language, traditional poli
Page 37 and 38: Appendix 4. Connect Magazine articl
Page 39 and 40: centers and pre-schools across the

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