Stephen Harris-Writer, Educator, Anthropologist

Introduction.- PART A.- 1 An overview of the life of Stephen Harris.- 2 From start to finish: a man of many parts .- 3 Nomo munanga; main kantrimen ('Not a White person, but one belonging to my land and my people').- 4 Language and belonging: the gift of a childhood with Aboriginal people.- 5 Stephen Harris: heritage and legacy .- 6 Some personal and professional reminiscences .- PART B.- 7 Our professional collaboration over the years.- 8 An exchange of correspondence focused on the interdependence hypothesis.- 9 My professional recollections .- 10 Different roles, similar goals: Devlin & Harris, 1978-2020 .- 11 Opening the door to a new understanding of Aboriginal learning styles.- 12 Stephen as a mentor, colleague and friend..- 13 Memories of a friend and colleague.- 14 Reminiscences from an Aboriginal scholar and former student.- 15 Still ahead of his time.- 16 Stephen Harris and the domain separation debate.- 17 An exploration of some issues.- PART C.- 18 A brief history of linguistics in the Northern Territory.- 19 A letter to school staff in the north-west of South Australia.- 20 Carving out domains for the use of a re-awakening language.- 21 A poetic tribute.- 22 Bibliography of Stephen Harris's published and unpublished work.- Index.

Professor Brian Clive Devlin is Honorary Professorial Fellow at Charles Darwin University, Australia. Designated an 'expert of international standing' by the ARC College of Experts in 2007, he was Associate Professor of Bilingual Education and Applied Linguistics at Charles Darwin University, Professor and first holder of the Dr. R. Marika Chair in Australian and Indigenous Studies at Cologne University, Germany (October 2009-February 2010), and an Australian delegate to UNESCO meetings in the Asia-Pacific region. In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked as a teacher-linguist, school principal and then Principal Education Officer (Bilingual) before joining the university. In more recent times, he has helped to build a digital archive of books printed by Literature Production Centres (LPCs) during the bilingual era of education in the Northern Territory, Australia (see www.cdu.edu.au/laal). For his doctorate at Columbia University, he researched the intergenerational transmission of vernacular languages in a Northeast Arnhem Land settlement. His research interests include the use of vernacular languages in educational programs, interactive e-learning for remote students, and the history of bilingual education policy in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Dr Joy Kinslow-Harris is Research Linguist from Texas, USA. Her 1968 article in Australian Territories was the catalyst for the establishment of bilingual programs in the Northern Territory, Australia. She met Stephen Harris when she was undertaking research on Gunwingguan languages for a Ph.D. thesis at Australian National University and was married in 1966. Later, in Darwin, she started a class in English for speakers of other languages at Nungalinya for theology students as well as a women's study group, which studied English language use in the community. From there, she went on to join the Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, to manage an access courseleading