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Promoting Home–Community–School Links

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Kathy Watson
Affiliation:
University of New England
Dianne Roberts
Affiliation:
Minimbah School
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Minimbah is an Aboriginal word whichmeans ‘place of learning’. Since self-management in 1987 by the local Aboriginal Management Committee, the school Director, Dianne Roberts has promoted parent, staff and community input at this place of learning. Improved parental involvement in this Aboriginal preschool was essential following the policy change from outside control to self-management.

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Section A: Schools
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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