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The Implications of Statements by Aboriginal Leaders for Language Teaching in Aboriginal Schools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2016

B. Graham
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In the Plenary Address to the Cross Cultural Issues in Educational Linguistics Conference held at Batchelor in 1987, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Principal at Yirrkala Community School, expressed the hope that a school using ‘both-ways’ curriculum would help Aboriginal people regain control of their lives. Among other things he states,

If you have control of both languages you have double power.

(Yunupingu, 1987, p.4)

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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , July 1990 , pp. 3 - 53
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1990

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