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Teaching Aboriginal Studies: Some Problems of Culturalism in an Inner City School#

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

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Aboriginal Studies has now been a part of the South Australian curriculum for many years and most of the writing about teaching Aboriginal Studies has focused on appropriate content and pedagogues with little critical appraisal of the actual implementation of Aboriginal Studies curricula. A research project carried out in an inner city Adelaide secondary school suggests that it is crucial for those of us engaged in the teaching of Aboriginal Studies and Aboriginal students, to turn attention to the taken-for-granted presuppositions and ideologies that inform teacher understandings and practices in Aboriginal Studies.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press or the authors 1993

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Sections of this paper have been published in ‘Teachers and the Contradictions of Culturalism’ in Gajendra Verma (ed) Inequality and Teacher Education : An International Perspective, Falmer, 1993.

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