Butchulla may be taught in schools (fwd link)

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Butchulla may be taught in schools

Stephen O’Grady | 12th February 2010
Canada

HERVEY Bay is poised to pioneer an indigenous education revolution.

A senior officer from the Queensland Studies Authority was told
yesterday that the Fraser Coast is ready to trial a ground-breaking
new school syllabus which could place the Butchulla language alongside
Chinese, Indonesian, German and French as classroom subjects.

Paul Herschell, acting deputy director of the QSA’s teaching and
learning division, met with Butchulla elders and education leaders at
the Korrawinga Aboriginal Centre in Hervey Bay to present a statewide
proposal to formalise the education of indigenous languages.

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