Establishing Positive Learning Environments for Aboriginal and Islander Children in the Earliest Years of Schooling
Abstract
There is little doubt that the most effective teacher of Aboriginal and Islander children would be a person from the community in which the children live, or at least one who shares many of their life-ways. However, until Aboriginal and Islander children have access to teachers from their own cultural groups, it is important that what has been learned about how best to provoke a learning environment for them is readily available.
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