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Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Teaching Styles at Milingimbi School

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

C.S. Deslandes
C.S. Deslandes*
Affiliation:
Yirara College, Alice Springs
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Dr Ian Malcolm (WA) has shown in several papers the difficulties teachers have communicating with Aboriginal children in the classrooms. Dr Stephen Harris (NT), in his PhD thesis, defined some of the differences between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal sociolinguistic rules of communication.

This study hypothesises that the rules of communication and organisation in the classroom used by Aboriginal teachers at Milingimbi will be different from those used by white Australian teachers.

It concludes that the two groups are significantly different in teaching styles, each tending towards its own traditional sociolinguistic rules, with some integration of rules from the other culture.

No conclusions are drawn as to the effectiveness of each group.

It is stressed that this is very much only a pilot study to open the way for further research and discussion.

Type
Across Australia …… From Teacher to Teacher
Information
The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 11 , Issue 5 , November 1983 , pp. 43 - 52
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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