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Benefits of Community Involvement at the School Level

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Stuart Dwyer
Stuart Dwyer*
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Curriculum Services Branch, Northern Territory Department of Education
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I would like to begin by providing a context that can be used to place my discussion about experiences at a remote school in the Northern Territory (NT) into perspective.

In the NT 53% of schools are located in remote areas and these cater for up to 23% of NT students (Combe, 2000). The NT has the highest proportion of Indigenous students enrolled in schools with 35.2% of the overall student population identifying as Indigenous Australian (Collins, 1999). The next closest state is Western Australia with an Indigenous student enrollment average of 5.1 %, this is compared with a national average of 3.2%.

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Teaching and Education
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , 2002 , pp. 1 - 7
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002

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Suggested Further Reading

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