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Community Involvement: The Saibai State School Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Steve Castley
Steve Castley*
Affiliation:
Saibai State School, Saibai Island, Via Thursday Island, Q. 4875
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The purpose of this report is to investigate the need for and purposes of parental and community involvement in an Outer Torres Strait Island school, namely Saibai State School, and to explore and report on some of the approaches to community involvement that we have trialled in our school.

If a school is aiming to educate its students for an active role in the society, then it is vital that the school be a living, active part of that society. It is unrealistic for teachers to assume that the school can stay separated from the community but still educate its students in a real and meaningful way.

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Across Australia…..From Teacher to Teacher
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 1988 , pp. 35 - 44
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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