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Pedagogical Principles for Aboriginal Teacher Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

R. McTaggart
R. McTaggart*
Affiliation:
School of Education, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria
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Aboriginal teacher education is a distinctive educational activity. How distinctive Aboriginal teacher education needs to be and the forms it might take are a matter for action research (McTaggart and Garbutcheon-Singh, 1986) by Aboriginal teachers, their communities, and teacher educators working in Aboriginal schools, and from teacher education instititions. But there is experience available from which it is reasonable to propose some general principles which should guide immediate efforts in Aboriginal teacher education.

The pedagogical principles outlined below come from an action research project in Aboriginal teacher education conducted in the Northern Territory over the last two years. The project is known as D-Bate, the Deakin-Batchelor Aboriginal Teacher Education Program, a joint project of Batchelor College in the Northern Territory and the School of Education of Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria.

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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , September 1987 , pp. 21 - 33
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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