RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Aboriginal Education: The School at Strelley, Western Australia
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 139
OP 144
DO 10.17763/haer.51.1.v93x127q438k160p
VO 51
IS 1
A1 Liberman, Kenneth
YR 1981
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/51/1/139.abstract
AB Education is suspect among traditionally oriented Aboriginal people because it has been used by the dominant Anglo-Australian population as a means for forced acculturation. Having had little control over schools in their communities, most Aboriginal people have failed to give them their enthusiastic support. Aboriginal leaders recognize, however,that Aboriginals need to develop literacy and cognitive skills to protect their culture from outside domination, and are now pushing for control of their schools. The Strelley School marks a progressive and successful Aboriginal effort to administer education on their own terms.