Project Report - La Trobe University
Project Report - La Trobe University
Project Report - La Trobe University
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What challenged us?<br />
The main challenges we faced sprang from the<br />
limited timeframe. For example, we weren’t able to<br />
even start on some of the educational materials<br />
we’d hoped to produce, like a history reader with<br />
local content, given the lack of time. Also, we didn’t<br />
have time to translate all of the stories we<br />
documented into Chinananaw. One compromise<br />
we made to meet our deadline was to rush the<br />
graphic layout and printing of the educational<br />
materials (Bebs Pavia and Pinky Pavia at Art Angel<br />
Printshop did a magnificent job of helping us to<br />
meet our deadline and still produce high-quality<br />
outputs). Due to time constraints, the books were<br />
not as polished as we’d have wished (according to<br />
our personal standards only, that is – the<br />
community, the school, the artists and Ateneo were<br />
very pleased with the final output). We chose to<br />
rush the final layout and printing so we could still<br />
present the community with the full set of<br />
educational materials before leaving for Australia,<br />
as we’d initially said we would. We saw this as vital<br />
to maintaining our relationship with the<br />
community and to setting the standard for future<br />
engagements by following through on our word.<br />
The other major challenges we faced were medical<br />
emergencies and illness. Fargwog (Daniel) Aga-id,<br />
the main tribal elder involved in the project, was<br />
seriously ill for the first half of the project and<br />
wasn’t even in Chananaw for this time. We worked<br />
around this by focusing on aspects of the project<br />
for which his input wasn’t essential, and drew on<br />
the support of other interested tribe members<br />
until he returned. Edwin also encountered an<br />
unexpected medical problem which took him off<br />
the project for almost a month. We dealt with this<br />
by adjusting our plans, cutting back on aspects of<br />
our work, and by Maria filling in for him while he<br />
was away.<br />
Indigenizing Education in a Kalinga Public School | 25<br />
Agom (Arlene) Dawing translates a story from English<br />
to Chinananaw in Tabuk, the capital of Kalinga<br />
Province, in a spare hour after Dr. Gloria Baguingan’s<br />
seminar on the First <strong>La</strong>nguage Component Bridging<br />
Program we organized for the Ichananaw teachers<br />
concluded on April 6, 2009.