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Children's History: Implications of Childhood Beliefs for Teachers of Aboroginal Students

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Simon Leonard
Simon Leonard*
Affiliation:
University of Woollongong
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While conducting research intended to explore the underlying thoughts and assumptions held by non-Indigenous teachers and policy makers involved in Aboriginal education I dug out my first book on Australian history which had been given when I was about seven years old. Titled Australia From the Beginning (Pownall, 1980), the book was written for children and was not a scholarly book. It surprised me, then, to find so many of my own understandings and assumptions about Aboriginal affairs and race relations in this book despite four years of what had seemed quite liberal education in Australian history.

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Teaching and Education
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , 2002 , pp. 20 - 24
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002

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