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Aboriginal Education in Victoria: New Directions – 1975 –?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

G. Beaton*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Education, Victoria
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In the past our school system failed to attend to the educational, social, and emotional needs of Aborigines. By accepting the simplistic and convenient notion that a more advanced technology reflected a superior social, spiritual, cultural, and educational development we were able to justify the denial and denigration of the Aboriginal character, culture, and history in the very schools we compelled Aborigines to attend.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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