An Aboriginal School – A Model 1979-?

Abstract

This model is based on the following set of suppositions:

– the Aboriginal school should be bilingual;

– Aboriginal people are traditionally tied to their land and therefore students are reluctant to leave their local community for further education;

– Communities in Australia will become self-managing, self-sufficient, and will determine their own future;

– education of Aboriginal children will prepare them for their rightful position in their Community in relation to the above;

– the Aboriginal attitude to education is different from that of the European Australian, and schools should cater for their needs as seen in the Community and not through the eyes of middle-class non-Aborigines;

– Aboriginal people have the right to education on the basis of the United Nations Charter, Article 26: