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Education -- Initiation!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

P. Jenkings
P. Jenkings*
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University of Sydney
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Education as a form of initiation has severely affected Aboriginal children as they endeavour to live in ‘two worlds’.

Education involves the initiation of a child into society. At an early age a child attends school where he or she learns attitudes, values and beliefs that are seen as desirable.

Australia’s early white settlers saw that the Aborigines had no buildings and no formal institutions, this led them to draw a distorted view of Aboriginal education. Coming from the European situation where classrooms, boarding schools, and university buildings represented learning, they concluded that Aborigines were completely without any system of education.

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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 13 , Issue 5 , November 1985 , pp. 57 - 60
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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References

Hart, Max, 1974: Kulila – on Aboriginal Education. A&NZ Book Company, Sydney.Google Scholar