Book Review - Aborigines : A Statement of Concern.

Havighurst R.J .: Cultural pluralism and education. The Aboriginal Child at School , Vol.2, No.4, September 1974. It seems important to me that an accurate account of white/Aboriginal contact be taught in Australian history courses in the schools. As well, it seems essential that all school children be taught about the viability of Aboriginal society prior to European settlement. For those intending to be teachers, a knowledge of the education offered Aboriginal people in the past is important. See :

Walker K. : An Aboriginal View of Australian history. The Aboriginal Child at School, Vol.5, No.4, August 1977.

Harris J.W. : The education of Aboriginal children in New South Wales public schools since 1788. The Aboriginal Child at School, Vol.6 , No.4, August, 1978, Vol.6., No.5, Oct-Nov.,1978.

Fitzgerald R.T. : Poverty and Education in Australia, A.G.P.S., Canberra, 1976, pp. 183–185. (A succinct statement on changes in Aboriginal education policy from the establishment of a school for Aborigines by Governor Macquarie until the present.)

Smolicz J.J. : Is the Australian school an assimilationist agency?Education News, 13, 1971, pp. 4– 8. (This article deals specifically with the education of migrants. However, it is relevant to a consideration of the relationship between cultural pluralism and education.)

Cotterell J.E. : The image of the Aboriginal in modern Australian fiction. A survey of the writing in the last ten years. The Aboriginal Child at School , Vol.3, No.l, February, 1975.

Lippmann L. : Newstyle racism in textbooks. The Educational Magazine, Vol.30, No. 5, 1973.

Doobov A. : Racism in school books. The Australian Quarterly, Vol. 46, No.2, 1974.