Studies
This online journal contains work I undertake as a student at the Eora Centre,Sydney, an initiative of the Aboriginal community in Sydney that later became part of TAFE (Technical And Further Education).
2018. Bundjalung Language
2017. Aboriginal Cultural Arts
2005-2006. Diploma of Aboriginal Studies begun at Eora (Sydney) and completed online (from London) through the Open Training & Education Network (OTEN), Sydney
Photograph from the Dreamtime Climb Guide (2018) by my son Josef Goding
Biame, the creator spirit, left the earth after its creation to reside as a dark shape in the Milky Way. The emu is inextricably linked with the wide grasslands of Australia, the landscape managed by the Aboriginals. The fate of the emu, people and grain are locked in step because, for Aboriginal people, the economy and the spirit are inseparable. Europeans stare at the stars but Aboriginal people also see the spaces in between where the spirit resides.
Bruce Pascoe, (2014) Front page, Dark Emu, Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation, Broome, Western Australia
The knowledge of historical continuity is one of man's most valuable steppingstones in his evolutionary progress. The purposeful accumulation of experiences can protect him from the repetition of mistakes, so that his creative power can gradually be saved for socially productive tasks. This productivity should be the alpha and omega of education, the translating of all the elements of learning into a creative sociobiological living ...
... Each generation differs from the preceding one in the determination of its task. The task of this generation is to search for its roots. It must try to understand the significance of natural functions so that everyone may become aware of the essential purpose of living: the preservation and refinement of the biological nature of the individual within a harmonious social existence.
Moholy-Nagy, L. (1956) p. 23-5, Vision in Motion, Paul Theobald and Company, Chicago
