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Education by Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Robert Laird
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Every curriculum area requires careful and particular thought when being taught to Aboriginal students: it is teaching one cultural context to another culture which is not familiar with it. This paper will deal with a remote Aboriginal community, as familiarity with the mainstream culture is less and the disparity between the cultures is greater. The specific programme will apply to a combined year five and six. The curriculum area to be examined will be science as it has been comparatively neglected in the past (Palmer 1990;34). It must be made explicit that the following is ‘western’ science and that it is no better or worse a system of looking at the world than any other - just a different one.

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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , July 1993 , pp. 31 - 39
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press or the authors 1993

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