Aborigines And Education
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Binding loose.
At the crossroads of social justice and pedagogy, Aborigines and Education presents a landmark collection of essays confronting one of Australia's most urgent and long-neglected challenges: the education of its First Nations peoples. Edited by S.S. Dunn and C.M. Tatz, this anthology assembles leading scholars, educators, and policymakers to examine the systemic barriers, cultural disconnects, and institutional failures that have historically shaped — and too often hindered — Aboriginal Australians' access to meaningful education. The volume argues with unflinching clarity that the crisis in Aboriginal education is inseparable from broader questions of colonial policy, cultural identity, and political power. Contributors dissect the tensions between Western educational models and Indigenous ways of knowing, illustrating how curriculum, language, and community engagement must be reimagined if genuine progress is to be achieved. A foundational text in the discourse on Indigenous rights and educational reform, this collection leaves readers asking a question that remains as pressing today as when it was first posed: whose knowledge, and whose future, does education truly serve?
Author: S S Dunn And C M Tatz
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Binding loose.
At the crossroads of social justice and pedagogy, Aborigines and Education presents a landmark collection of essays confronting one of Australia's most urgent and long-neglected challenges: the education of its First Nations peoples. Edited by S.S. Dunn and C.M. Tatz, this anthology assembles leading scholars, educators, and policymakers to examine the systemic barriers, cultural disconnects, and institutional failures that have historically shaped — and too often hindered — Aboriginal Australians' access to meaningful education. The volume argues with unflinching clarity that the crisis in Aboriginal education is inseparable from broader questions of colonial policy, cultural identity, and political power. Contributors dissect the tensions between Western educational models and Indigenous ways of knowing, illustrating how curriculum, language, and community engagement must be reimagined if genuine progress is to be achieved. A foundational text in the discourse on Indigenous rights and educational reform, this collection leaves readers asking a question that remains as pressing today as when it was first posed: whose knowledge, and whose future, does education truly serve?