Author Identifier
Sandra Wooltorton: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8677-870X
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Australian Journal of Environmental Education
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
School
Centre for People, Place and Planet
Funders
Australian Government / Australian Research Council / Water Corporation’s Research and Development Program / Millennium Kids Enviro Fund / Western Australian Museum
Grant Number
ARC Number : LP210301390
Abstract
In this communication, the Australian authors-two Indigenous women and one woman with Anglo-Celtic ancestry-take us into Western Australian Indigenous language and worldviews, to help us reach toward a regenerative worldview. Indigenous words such as rinyi, pirlirr, and liyan are explored to point us in a direction unfamiliar to many English speakers, to Land and Country as living and responsive. The authors notice that it is very difficult to describe these terms in English, because English language does not seem sufficiently capacious to describe the depth of relational being-with Country that Indigenous languages portray. This may be changing, as various Indigenous and place-based groups publish their messages to the world. Within a methodology that is poetic and ontological, a storying method is used to illustrate elements of an Indigenous regenerative worldview that highlights the lyrics of life, for hope. It is for change agents who want to be transformative of the ways they participate with Country; and enable children to learn.
DOI
10.1017/aee.2024.73
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Comments
Nagarra, K., Poelina, A., & Wooltorton, S. (2025). Seeing, feeling, and hearing the world. A regenerative worldview: Rinyi, Pirlirr and Liyan. Australian Journal of Environmental Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2024.73