Η Ελληνομάθεια στο Ρίβερλαντ
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2011
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Tsianikas, Michael
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Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek
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Please note: this article is in Greek. The Teaching of Greek in the Riverland: This paper focuses on the introduction and
establishment of the Greek teaching programs in the Riverland area. It is part of an
ongoing study on the settlement of Greek migrants in the upper Murray area, during
the 1960’s in particular. In a previous paper published in 2009 I examined the establishment
of the Greek communities in the Riverland and focussed on the creation of
cultural institutions and on the social interaction amongst the Greek migrants. In this
paper I decided to expand on the teaching of the Greek language which became the
major cultural focus that shaped not only the Greek communities in the Riverland,
but also promotes interaction with the other local communities and will shape future
generations. The findings of this paper is that the year 1966 was the catalyst; because
for the first time Greek community schools were established and this development
created a new dynamism in the local Greek communities. The first architects of these
schools were priests that arrived in the area, built churches and decided to promote
the teaching of the Greek language. Through the study it is has become obvious that
these first schools, besides promoting and maintaining language, also very actively
promoted national and religious celebrations. It was also a time when new colours,
new attitudes and new languages were given a dynamic publicity, pre-figuring multiculturalism
which eventually became the official policy of Australia in the mid-1970’s.
I decided to give the paper a tone of a lively narrative, revealing ‘wild’ human lives in
the process of building cultures and institutions, rather than anxiously follow scientific
exactitude and statistics.
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Greek Research, Greece, Australia, Michael Tsianikas, Μιχάλης Τσιανίκας
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Tsianikas, Michael 2009. Η Ελληνομάθεια στο Ρίβερλαντ. In M. Rossetto, M. Tsianikas, G. Couvalis and M. Palaktsoglou (Eds.) "Greek Research in Australia: Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, Flinders University June 2009". Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek: Adelaide, 684-709.