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The Impact of Aboriginal Education Assistants (AEAS) in New South Wales Public Schools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2016

Wayne Scott
Wayne Scott*
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Bourke High School, Bourke, NSW
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A considerable amount of research attests to the difficulties experienced by Aboriginal students in the school system of New South Wales. Coker (1981) states that Aboriginal students more than any other identificable group in Australia score consistently lower in basic skills tests involving reading, writing and mathematics. McConnochie (1973) suggests that the failure of Aboriginal students at school is primarily the fault of the school system and not the student. Institutions tend to debase the student’s self-concept and the group with whom they identify. This process contributed to the students’ low self-esteem and further contributed to low vocational aspirations and academic achievement.

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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 18 , Issue 5 , November 1990 , pp. 44 - 53
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1990

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