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Pupil Power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

J. Coker
J. Coker*
Affiliation:
Aboriginal Education, Adelaide, S.A.
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Teachers of Aboriginal children have very special responsibilities. You and I know that Aborigines are the poorest, worst housed, least healthy group of people in Australia. More to the point, they are the least educated group of people in the Australian community. Our challenge is to rectify that situation.

We will not get very far if we delude ourselves into thinking that we are working for the Aborigines. We have gone past that stage. You and I work with Aborigines. That is why we are so committed to the employment of Aboriginal teacher aides; why we have pushed Aboriginal Teacher Training; why we employ Aboriginal home/school co-ordinators; why we have Aboriginal school councils, and why we are forming a State Aboriginal Education Consultative Commi ttee.

Type
Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , August 1978 , pp. 18 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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