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Science and Aboriginal Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Peter Edwards
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In our society success in science is important for students as a means to full participation, empowerment, and access to career/further study options. Science in schools is an area of concern for Aboriginal education because of the low number of Aboriginal students who experience this success. Goal 3 of the Common And Agreed National Goals For Schooling In Australia (May, 1989) speaks of “equality of educational opportunities” and providing for “groups with special learning requirements”. For Aboriginal students, academic success and cultural identity are twin priorities: achievement and success need to go hand in hand with a strengthening and deepening of cultural identity. Students' Aboriginality must not be denied by learning programs which define science purely in terms of the dominant Western culture.

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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , November 1993 , pp. 33 - 41
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press or the authors 1993

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