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Becoming Expert in the World of Experts: Factors Affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Participation and Career Path Development in Australian Universities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Arthur Smith
Arthur Smith*
Affiliation:
School of Education, James Cook University, Townsville
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In the recent history of Australia Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders have only had widespread access to a university education for approximately 20 years. Before this, Indigenous graduates from Australian universities were relatively few. Universities were seen as complex, often alien places in Indigenous cultural terms; institutions of European Australian social empowerment and credentialling from which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff and students were virtually excluded.

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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. 1 - 6
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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