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*Homeland Centres Education in the Maningrida (N.T.) District

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

B.S. Deslandes
B.S. Deslandes*
Affiliation:
Ludmilla Primary School, Darwin N.T.
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The decentralizing movement away from large, multi-tribal settlements and missions over the last half decade is one of the most significant Aborignal initiated movements since the beginning of the European invasion.

Initially the movement required and requested nothing from Europeans. Gradually requests have been made for assistance in the areas of specific foods, health and education services.

In establishing an educational program for the homeland centre schools, it is essential that a situation is not created whereby Europeans saturate/dampen the initiative of the Aboriginal people; and so a program aimed at basic numeracy and literacy (as requested by the groups) has been devised aimed at supporting Aboriginal teachers.

Type
Across Australia….. From Teacher to Teacher
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , April 1979 , pp. 15 - 29
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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* This article outlines attempts (up to early 1977) to provide meaningful schooling for Aboriginal groups living away from a central settlement.