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The Strelley Community School Nyangumarta Language and Cultural Maintenance Program1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Richard O. Routh
Richard O. Routh*
Affiliation:
Edith Cowan University, Bunbury Campus, Western Australia
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The Strelley Community School is an Aboriginal Independent Community School — the first one established in Western Australia in 1976 and remains the oldest continually operational school of its kind in Australia. The Nomads Charitable and Educational Foundation is the school authority responsible for articulating school policy and administration.

There are now 13 Aboriginal Independent Community Schools in Western Australia and twenty three nationally (Mack,1995). They share a common philosophy of being non-government school systems created and administered by the community. Parents and students have a proactive role in determining school policies.

Type
Section C: Conference Reports
Information
The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , October 1997 , pp. 27 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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Footnotes

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The three papers included here in the Conference Reports Section were all presented at the World Indigenous Peoples' Conference — Education 1996, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 17-21, 1996.

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