Pre-conference Symposium<\/a>.<\/p>\n‘In My Own Words’ follows the journey of adult Aboriginal students and their teachers as they discover the transformative power of reading and writing for the first time. Research reveals that 45-65% of Aboriginal adults are functionally illiterate. The focus of the documentary is on a classroom in Brewarrina, a rural northwest NSW town with a majority Aboriginal population. Filming every day of the 13-week Literacy for Life Foundation course, director Erica Glynn captures the women and men, poverty and hardship, friendship and humour behind the sobering statistics.<\/p>\n
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