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Cultural Studies: Comparative at A.T.E.C.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

G. McClelland
G. McClelland*
Affiliation:
Aboriginal Teacher Education Centre, Batchelor, N.T.
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Abstract

The following Cultural Studies program has been working at A.T.E.C., Batchelor, for two years. The initial fears (how are you going to teach Aboriginals about their own culture? etc.) have been laid to rest and the course entered its second year in a very strong position with a lot of support coming from students.

The structural components of the course come from three areas: Paulo Friere’s Education for Critical Consciousness, Beattie’s Other Cultures, and documentation from the East West Centre, Hawaii, on Cross Cultural Orientation Techniques.

The course runs for four years and is based on a spiral concept with eight subjects discussed each year: law, politics, leadership, economics, kinship, family, language, religion.

Type
Across Australia…… From Teacher to Teacher
Information
The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , February 1980 , pp. 18 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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References

Freire, P.: Education for Critical Consciousness. Sheed and Ward, London, 1973.Google Scholar
Trifonovitch, G.J.: On cross-cultural orientation techniques. Topics in Cultural Learning. East West Centre, Honolulu, 1973.Google Scholar
Beattie, J.: Other Cultures. Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd. Broadway House, London, 1964.Google Scholar
Permission to publish from students’ work received from: Jabarula, J., Ngalingali, Elaine, Jabarula, Peter, Yarmirr, Jessie, Winunguj, Milark, Rosas, Madge (all A.T.E.C. students, 1978).Google Scholar