ItalianoThe goal of the project is to sustain the reintegration of young aborigines thanks to an educational program and a path of valuing their mother tongue
Description
The project was begun in 2013 thanks to the collaboration between the Augustinian Province of Australia and a group of social workers and young researchers. The scope was to study and the propose a path of social reintegration for troubled young aborigines, who were excluded from the schools because of conduct problems.
The methodology was to help the learning process by the use of mobile telephones and some social networks, which today are very common means of communication among the young in the whole world. Having noted a failure of the classic scholastic system, they wanted to use an experimental method that avoided lessons, which included the obligation to remain seated in a classroom for hours on end. The young aborigines, after a period of getting used to it, have begun to communicate earnestly among themselves and have demonstrated an ability for learning that is very good, and furthermore, they have used terms, which were unknown to the researchers. The researchers have gathered about fifty of these terms and have shared them with their colleagues from other universities and they have thus discovered that they are dealing with a language that has disappeared and which they did not know existed.
Today the project involves other universities and in benefitting youth, of whom have obtained a diploma.
