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In this chapter we focus on the importance of partnerships in arts-based service learning with Australian First Peoples and community arts organizations. Drawing on six years of our own partnership and a wide body of literature, this chapter aims to act as a trigger for further reflection on ways to engage in meaningful partnerships with First Peoples and arts organizations. In particular, the continuum between transactional and transformational types of relationships provides a useful means for understanding our work and for positioning the various benefits and challenges associated with university-community partnerships more broadly.
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The Honorable Paul Keating served as the 24th Prime Minister of Australia between 1991 and 1996.
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Nampin is a Warumungu “skin name”. Members of each kinship group have a “skin name” that relates to the kinship system, which is a feature of Aboriginal social organization and family relationships across Australia. This complex system determines how people relate to each other and their roles, responsibilities and obligations in relation to one another, ceremonial business and land.
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Bartleet, BL., Carfoot, G., Murn, A. (2016). Exploring University-Community Partnerships in Arts-Based Service Learning with Australian First Peoples and Arts Organizations. In: Bartleet, BL., Bennett, D., Power, A., Sunderland, N. (eds) Engaging First Peoples in Arts-Based Service Learning. Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22153-3_3
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