- Title
- Closing the gap
- Creator
- Lester, John; Munns, Geoff
- Relation
- Teaching Aboriginal Studies: A Practical Resource for Primary and Secondary Teaching p. 229-256
- Relation
- http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=305&book=9781741754759
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Discusses the current movement and hope of equity in education and training for Indigenous peoples in this country. These same peoples have long practised very successful complex holistic educational systems for life. Effective, efficient, systemic and sustainable education of Aboriginal people was practised and proven overwhelmingly productive since time immemorial, or BC (Before Cook), in Australia. It is only since the invasion of non-Indigenous educational forces that the concept of an Indigenous deficit in education was born and the concept of a 'gap' in educational attainment commenced. Western education has proven to be one of the prime drivers of mass cultural genocide and social injustice across Australia. So successful has been this attack that in the twenty-first century the 'gap' between Indigenous and non-Indigenous educational outcomes in the state of New South Wales is at crisis levels and unfortunately very much a national trend.
- Description
- 2nd ed.
- Subject
- Indigenous education; educational policies; educational inequality; schooling outcomes
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1036576
- Identifier
- uon:13314
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781741754759
- Language
- eng
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