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Learning Difficulties of Aborigines in Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

K. Honeyman
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Many of today’s Aborigines, when placed in the Western educational environment, are faced with a range of psychological problems. This is partly because the education system is based on Western traditions and culture which, knowingly or unknowingly, tends to ignore almost completely Aboriginal culture and traditions.

For teachers to develop strategies that will help themselves and their students in the class room, attention must be focused on situations that have contributed to the Aborigines’ low psychological appreciations of Western education.

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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , July 1986 , pp. 17 - 36
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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