The Implications of Statements by Aboriginal Leaders for Language Teaching in Aboriginal Schools
Abstract
In the Plenary Address to the Cross Cultural Issues in Educational Linguistics Conference held at Batchelor in 1987, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Principal at Yirrkala Community School, expressed the hope that a school using ‘both-ways’ curriculum would help Aboriginal people regain control of their lives. Among other things he states,
If you have control of both languages you have double power.
(Yunupingu, 1987, p.4)References
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