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What Entitles a School to Legitimately Call Itself an Aboriginal School?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Paul Buckley
Paul Buckley*
Affiliation:
Wallace Rockhole, Northern Territory
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According to the 1995 Northern Territory Department of Education Directory, the numberof schools within the Territory which cater for Aboriginal students are as follows:

• 40 preschools in predominantly Aboriginal communities

• 67 primary schools of predominantly Aboriginal communities

• 53 outstations and Homeland Learning Centres in predominantly Aboriginal communities

• 33 Community Education Centres and other post-primary schools in predominantly Aboriginal communities.

Type
Section A: Schools
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , April 1996 , pp. 10 - 16
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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