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An Educational Pathway Between Two Cultures: Equal Opportunities for Aboriginal Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Margot J. Moeckel*
Affiliation:
Northern Directorate, N.T. Department of Education
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Extract

The Aboriginal learning system is not a functional learning system for everything that needs to be learned in school. Whether a formal or informal style fits the task best is dependent on the nature of what has to be learned, more than on the student’s cultural affiliations. Today Aboriginal children not only need to acquire age-old knowledge in traditional ways but they have to acquire new knowledge...and they need to develop new ways of learning.

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Across Australia ……. from Teacher to Teacher
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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References

Gale, Fay, 1973: We Are Bosses Ourselves. The Status and Role of Aboriginal Women Today. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra.Google Scholar
Harris, S., 1978: Traditional Aboriginal Education Strategies and Their Possible Place in a Modern Bicultural School. A paper presented to the National Conference for teachers of Aboriginal children.Google Scholar
Moeckel, M.J., 1982: Environmental Science for Aboriginal Children. Early Childhood, NT Department of Education.Google Scholar