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Contexts and Strategies for Writing with Urban Aboriginal and Islander Students

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Helen McDonald
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There is no more promising way of increasing the closeness of subcultural groups to their own roots and culture “than by cherishing and nourishing the speech of the home and the neighbourhood and by helping it to find the kind of expression in story, poem, play, which can communicate the spirit of the subculture to a multicultural audience.”

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talkreadingaudience
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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , May 1986 , pp. 3 - 15
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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