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A Pilot Survey of Calculators and Computers Used in Aboriginal Community Schools of the Northern Territory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Ron Stanton
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Batchelor College is a tertiary education institution servicing the needs of Aboriginal communities mainly in the Northern Territory and “top end” of Australia. Within the School of Education there is the Teacher Education programme which has been operating in various forms since 1976, and has successfully piloted and implemented a community based operation known as Remote Area Teacher Education (RATE) (see Kemmis 1988). The program at mid- year 1990 underwent re-accreditation, and in his paper Reconstituting the Curriculum Framework for the Batchelor College Teacher Education Program, Ian Stewart (Head of School) argued for the development of four integrated strands over four sequential stages (Stewart 1989). These strands are: Community Studies; Curriculum Studies; Language Studies; and Professional Studies.

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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , July 1992 , pp. 13 - 32
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press or the authors 1992

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