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What Does the Literature Say about Computer Literacy and Indigenous Australians' Language?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Tangi Steen
Tangi Steen*
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University of South Australia, Adelaide
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The word culture is defined by Singer, 1988: 6) as:

a pattern of learned, group-related perceptions —including both verbal and non-verbal language, attitudes, values belief and disbelief systems, and behaviours — that is accepted and expected by an identity group… each identity group has its own language or code, each group may be said to have its own culture.

It is obvious from this definition that each one of us belongs to one culture or another, each culture encapsulating a totality of a way of living, expectation and behaviour that is specifically unique to that group. Culture is constituted in our daily lives, in our negotiations and adjustments to experience day-to-day existence.

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Section A: Discussion Papers
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , October 1997 , pp. 14 - 23
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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