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Cultural Understanding: Teaching about Race Relations in the Primary School

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Michael McDougall  and
Peter Hastie
Peter Hastie
Affiliation:
Department of Human Movement Studies, University of Queensland, St Lucia
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Racism certainly exists amongst primary school children in Australia. Through both experience in school and teaching, the authors have noted marked prejudice amongst students. This prejudice takes the forms of slurs, name calling, recitation of myths and stereotypes, and occasionally violence, and is directed at all minority groups, but notably Aborigines and Asians.

Students in minority groups have most likely been on the receiving end of this prejudice during their school lives and, because of this, may have felt alienated and humiliated. In this paper it is proposed that the teaching of race relations and cultural understanding is one method teachers may use to decrease the racial attitudes of the white non-minority students.

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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , May 1989 , pp. 45 - 49
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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