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Culture and Curriculum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

R.A. Smith
R.A. Smith*
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Department of Education, University of Queensland, St. Lucia.
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It has become fashionable in educational circles to pay homage to what is described as ‘cultural activities’ in schools, particularly those schools in which the clientele is drawn from a culturally different community. Such an addition to the curriculum content of schools is a response to the concern that schools are somehow irrelevant to the needs of the client group. While the latter point may indeed be true, this paper argues that curriculum decisions in the area of ‘culture’ are deceptively simple.

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Section Five
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , August 1994 , pp. 73 - 78
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press or the authors 1994

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