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Teaching Strategies for Aboriginal Australians in Traditionally Oriented Communities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

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As a prospective teacher who had lived in towns where white Australians, essentially teachers, were the minority groups, the reality of a posting to Aurukun was weighing on my mind. I began to wonder what school for Aboriginal Australians was like and what it should be like.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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