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The Injinoo Home Language Program: A Positive Community Response to Marginalisation and Institutional Racism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Christine Turner
Christine Turner*
Affiliation:
Injinoo, Cape York
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Teaching in and of itself is a difficult task fraught with obstacles to classroom success. For those who teach Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students these obstacles are compounded by a political atmosphere that colours every decision made within the school and indeed within education departments.

As classroom teachers it is easy to say that politics has nothing to do with teaching and pretend that it is not an issue. As convenient as this attitude may be, it is denying the facts. Indeed all teachers involved in Indigenous education must accept that their role is political. They must see that part of their task is to overcome years of institutional policy and attitude that have contributed significantly to poor educational performances for Indigenous students in Australia.

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Section A: Schools
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , April 1997 , pp. 1 - 9
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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