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Aboriginal Students Perceptions of the ‘World of Work’ and Implications for the Teaching of Work/Career Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Di Russell
Di Russell*
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Di Russell is a Senior Education Officer for the Western Area of the Education Department of South Australia based in Whyalla, and is currently studying for a Master of Education in Aboriginal Studies through the University of New England
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As part of my work this year I was required to undertake an evaluation project. I decided to combine some of my concerns about the appropriateness for Aboriginal students of some of the ways in which state education curriculum priorities are implemented with one of my focus curriculum areas, namely Work Education.

In South Australia the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy ( AEP ) is seen as the overarching Aboriginal Education Policy. However, most Aboriginal students in South Australia and all state schools are required to address mandatory curriculum are as set out in the “Educating for the 21st Century” (1990), the curriculum policy document.

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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , September 1992 , pp. 3 - 20
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press or the authors 1992

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