Conference Papers
Session WR 2.2. Yarning Circle : supporting young people (cont. from WR2.1)
Convenors: Norm Sheehan and Scott Gorringe
Bio: Norm Sheehan is a Wiradjuri man born in Mudgee NSW. He has taught in Aboriginal communities, TAFE and higher education in NSW, Tasmania and Queensland since 1979. In 2008 Norm completed an Australian Research Council Discovery project that investigated Indigenous Knowledge programs in higher education. He also recently completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Social and Emotional Well Being with the School of Psychiatry at the University of Queensland. This work laid down a framework to inform a cultural strengths approach to Aboriginal education. In 2009 Norm was awarded the South East Queensland NAIDOC award for the contribution his teaching and scholarship has made to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. He is currently Associate Professor at the Faculty of Design at Swinburne University of Technology.
Bio: Scott Gorringe is a Mithaka man from Western Queensland. In 2003–04 he won a scholarship through The University of Queensland to undertake further studies for his masters degree at The University of British Columbia. He has worked for Education Queensland, and for the Centre for Rural and Regional Innovation at The University of Queensland as a Learning Facilitator in leadership and facilitation and as Senior Project Officer (Research). Scott now works with the Stronger Smarter Institute as a consultant on Indigenous educational leadership, and is Director of Murrimatters Consulting.