Indigenous Community-Based Language Worker Collaborator
  • Type Certification
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Hours
  • Cost Free

Indigenous Community-Based Language Worker Collaborator

Issued by Charles Darwin University

This badge is awarded to Indigenous cultural workers who are bilingually proficient and work with languages—in teaching, in developing teaching resources, and in culturally researching and articulating the development of Indigenous languages in their communities. Awardees are qualified to undertake language teaching and research in the cultural development of languages under elder knowledge authority while engaging with non-Indigenous partners and organisations.

  • Type Certification
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Hours
  • Cost Free

Skills

Earning Criteria

  • You are required to attend a language work induction meeting and identification of supervising Elder Indigenous authority.
  • You are required to create a language worker profile detailing who you are, and your previous work (including bilingual experience)
  • You are required to participate in one or more collaborative language projects undertaken under Elder Authority with local language workers and CDU staff.