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A Plea for Alternatives in Aboriginal Education*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

J.R. Bucknall
J.R. Bucknall*
Affiliation:
Mount Lawley Teachers College, Mt. Lawley, W.A.
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This paper examines a proposal that there is a need for a reappraisal of community education as the term is understood and applied in schools on relatively remote, tribally oriented Aboriginal communities.

A fairly detailed examination is made of the current realities involved in teaching in such localities in order to develop an alternative approach to this concept. Implicit in this alternative is a rejection of the stratagem whereby an Aboriginal council or board acts as a rubber stamp in an a priori decision making process. The principles involved in compensatory education are also rejected as being singularly inappropriate to the needs of Aboriginal communities.

A number of ‘radical’ overseas educationalists, whose comments and ideals seem appropriate to developing cross cultural perspectives, provide much of the material used in support of this plea for a new alternative in Aboriginal education.

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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , June 1976 , pp. 10 - 24
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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