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Personal Characteristics of Effective Teachers of Adolescent Aborigines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

John P. Fanshawe
John P. Fanshawe*
Affiliation:
BCAE Kelvin Grove, Qld, 4059
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In an article based largely on overseas research into teacher effectiveness (e.g., Ryans, 1960; Kleinfeld, 1972) and Australian discussions of the non-Aboriginal teacher’s role in educating Aboriginal students (e.g., Hart, 1974), Fanshawe (1976) argues that the personal characteristics of effective teachers of adolescent Aborigines are likely to include:

• being warm and supportive;

• making realistic demands of students;

• acting in a responsible, businesslike and systematic manner;

• and being stimulating, imaginative and original.

Type
Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , September 1989 , pp. 35 - 48
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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