CDU Researcher Profile

School of Education
Faculty of Education, Health & Science
Charles Darwin University
Darwin NT 0909
Australia

• Research interests
• Publications
• Current projects
• Recent completions supervised

Research Interests

Michael's research interests include:

• Yolngu Languages and Culture
• Yolngu Philosophy of Identity
• Communication across cultures
• Indigenous Epistemologies and Pedagogies
• Digital Technology and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
• Participatory Action Research

Recent Publications

1. Christie, M. (2007)       Indigenous Knowledge management and Natural Resource management. In Investing in Indigenous Natural Resource Management, M.K. Luckert, B.M. Campbell, J.T Gorman, S.T. Garnett, Darwin: CDU Press, pp86-90.

2. Christie, M. (2007)       ‘Yolngu Language Habitat: Ecology, Identity and Law in an Aboriginal Society’ in Australia’s Aboriginal Languages Habitat, G. Leitner and I. Malcolm (Eds) Berlin, New York: Mouton De Gruyter pp57-78

3. Christie, M. (2007)       Verran, Helen, Michael Christie, Bryce Anbins-King, Trevor van Weeren, and Wulumdhuna Yunupingu. "Designing Digital Knowledge Management Tools with Aboriginal Australians".  Digital  Creativity, Volume 18 (3), September 2007 , pp. 129-142(14)

4. Christie, M. (2007)       Verran, Helen and Michael Christie  "Using/Designing Digital Technologies of Representation in Aboriginal Australian Knowledge Practices".  Human Technology; Interdisciplinary Journal of Humans in ICT Environments Vol 3 (2) May 2007, 214-227

5. Christie, M. (2007)       ‘Fracturing the Skeleton of Principle: Australian Law, Aboriginal Law, and Digital Technology’ Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts, November 2007, pp 30-39

6. Christie, M. (2006)       Transdisciplinary Research and Aboriginal Knowledge Australian Journal of Indigenous Education. (Vol 35, 1-12)

7. Christie, M. (2006)       ‘Boundaries and accountabilities in computer-assisted ethnobotany’. Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning Special issue on Multicultural Issues in the Design of Learning Technologies Vol 1(2), 1-12

8. Christie, M. (2006)       Local versus global Knowledges: A fundamental dilemma in ‘remote education’ Education in Rural Australia, (Vol 16 #1, 27-38)

9. Christie, M. (2005)       Aboriginal Knowledge Traditions in Digital Environments’’, Australasian Journal of Indigenous Education, Volume 34, 61-66.

10. Christie, M. (2005)       ‘Local Versus Global Knowledge: Resolving a fundamental dilemma in ‘remote Education’ in Our Stories: Innovation and Excellence in Rural Education Colin Boyle (Ed), Toowoomba: Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia.

11. Christie, M. (2005) Words, Ontologies and Aboriginal Databases Multimedia International Australia No. 116, , pp52-63.
12. Christie, M. and Greatorex, J. (2004). Social Capital in the Contexts of Yolngu Life. Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts, Number 2, 2004.
13. Christie, M. and Greatorex, J. (2004). Yolngu Life in the Northern Territory of Australia: The Significance of Community and Social Capital.  Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, 2004.
14. Christie, M. (2003). Computer Databases and Aboriginal Knowledge. Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts, 1, pp 4-12.
15. Cass, A., Lowell, A., Christie, M., Snelling, P., Flack, M., Narrnganyin, B. and Brown, I. (2002). Sharing the True Stories: Improving communication between Aboriginal patients and Health Care. Medical Journal of Australia, 176, pp 466-70.
16. Christie, M. (1998). Non-Aboriginal Pedagogues in the Production of Aboriginal Knowledge. In: Hackforth-Jones, J. (ed). (Re)forming Identities: Intercultural Education and the Visual Arts. Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia.
17. Christie, M. and Perrett, B. (1996). Negotiating resources: Language, knowledge and the search for 'Secret English' in northeast Arnhem Land. In: Howitt, Connell, R. and Hirsch, P. (Eds). ‘Resources, Nations and Indigenous Peoples’. Melbourne OUP.
    

Current Projects

• ARCLinkage: Digital Technology and the Intergenerational Transmission of Indigenous Knowledge
• Print-on-demand technologies in Aboriginal communities
• Yolngu Long-grassers on Larrakia Land
• The mobilisation of Yolngu philosophy in educational debate and research

Recent Completions Supervised

• Neil Harrison PhD: An Adventure of Insight in Ethnography and Pedagogy
• Lisa Palmer PhD: Kakadu as an Aboriginal Place

• Randin Graves MATSIS: Cultural foundation of the Yidaki in Northeast Arnhem Land