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Establishing Positive Learning Environments for Aboriginal and Islander Children in the Earliest Years of Schooling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Joan Kale
Joan Kale*
Affiliation:
Dept of Social and Cultural Studies in Education, James Cook University, Townsville
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There is little doubt that the most effective teacher of Aboriginal and Islander children would be a person from the community in which the children live, or at least one who shares many of their life-ways. However, until Aboriginal and Islander children have access to teachers from their own cultural groups, it is important that what has been learned about how best to provoke a learning environment for them is readily available.

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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , July 1988 , pp. 45 - 51
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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