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The Aboriginal Child not at School

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

W. Kerr
W. Kerr*
Affiliation:
Project Centre, District High School, Norseman WA
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A recent educational report acknowledged that in Australia, or at least, Western Australia, Aboriginal people were the most single disadvantaged group in Australia at both an educational and socioeconomic level.

The group this article concerns itself with is the children of the Central Desert area of Western Australia and in particular those children who are eligible to attend high school. Because few facilities exist for high school children in the Central Desert, the children are relocated away from their homelands in order to attend high school. Norseman supplies the facilities to cater for the needs of some of these children and for the purpose of this article, enrolment figures of the Norseman Project Centre will be used to exemplify the issue of the Aboriginal child not at school.

Type
Across Australia …… From Teacher to Teacher
Information
The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , July 1984 , pp. 52 - 54
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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