Culture Boundaries, Culture Maintenance-in-Change, and Two-Way Aboriginal Schools

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Harris
Keyword(s):  
Western Culture ◽  
Formal Schooling ◽  
World Views ◽  
Aboriginal Culture ◽  
White Culture ◽  
Culture Maintenance ◽  
Diverse Culture

Remote Aboriginal culture(s) and Western culture(s) are two of the most diverse culture groups on earth. In the context of these two fundamentally different world views, Aboriginal formal schooling is facing a major dilemma. Simply put this dilemma is that while most Aboriginal parents have a deep desire for their children to ‘grow up Aboriginal’, they also want their children to succeed in Western schooling and to perform successfully in some aspects of white culture, thereby reducing dependency on white expertise in their communities.

scholarly journals SOME IMPACTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MULTICULTURAL POLICY ON THE CURRENT PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CULTURE

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-72
Author(s):  
Ngoc Cao Boi Tran
Keyword(s):  
Western Culture ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Modern Trend ◽  
Australian Aborigines ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
The People ◽  
Multicultural Policy ◽  
Aboriginal Culture ◽  
Assimilation Policy ◽  
Diverse Cultures

Different from their ancestors, most of the Australian Aborigines currently live outside their native land but in a multicultural society under the major influence of Western culture. The assimilation policy, the White Australian policy etc. partly deprived Australian aborigines of their traditional culture. The young generations tend to adopt the western style of living, leaving behind their ancestors’ culture without any heir! However, they now are aware of this loss, and in spite of the modern trend of western culture, they are striving for their traditional preservation. In “Multicultural Australia: United in Diversity” announced on 13 May 2003, Australian government stated guidelines for the 2003-2006 development strategies. The goals are to build a successful Australia of diverse cultures, ready to be tolerant to other cultures; to build a united Australia with a shared future of devoted citizens complying with the law. As for Aboriginal culture, the multicultural policy is a recognition of values and significance of the most original features of the country’s earliest culture. It also shows the government’s great concern for the people, especially for the aborigines. All this displays numerous advantages for the preservation of Australian aboriginal culture.

My Philosophy of Aboriginal Education

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Honeyman
Keyword(s):  
Western Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Aboriginal Education ◽  
Cultural Group ◽  
Aboriginal Culture ◽  
Definition Of

This definition of Reeonstructionism has been written from a Western point of view. However, with modification, the philosophy of Reeonstructionism can easily be adopted as my philosophy of Aboriginal Education.Firstly, Brameld states that ‘Reeonstructionism commits itself to a building of a new culture’. In analysing the statement it can be said that Aboriginal culture and Western culture must form a new culture through the bonding of each culture. However, it must be noted that each culture will retain its values, customs and traditions, but must readily accept and try to understand the values, customs and traditions of the alternate culture. The result will be a new cultural group.

Aboriginal Children and School

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
L. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
School System ◽  
Effective Solution ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Aboriginal Child ◽  
Aboriginal Culture ◽  
White Culture ◽  
White School ◽  
Aboriginal Children ◽  
Different Cultures

Aboriginal children are confronted with numerous problems coping with the school system. An Aboriginal child is torn between the extremes of two cultures; the dominant white culture and Aboriginal culture.The dominant white culture perceives the Aboriginal culture to be different and at worst, very inferior. The Aboriginal culture is resigned to the white culture’s perception of it, because this perception is reinforced in the reality of the dominant white situation.The Aboriginal race is seen by many whites as lazy, irresponsible, uneducated, and a burden to society. The white Australian perception of Aboriginals as an ethnic group is still, in many ways, one of inferiors. Aboriginals have encountered white superiority since white settlement. Aboriginals were hunted and destroyed as vermin, and at a later stage, those that survived were placed on missions or reserves. At the time this seemed an effective solution, but it did in fact take Aboriginals away from their tribal lands, which were an important part of their culture. The Aboriginals were degraded and culturally ruined. Although there has been a small effort by white authorities to help Aboriginals, Aboriginals still have a strong feeling for white hostility and dominance.The Aboriginal child is a product of these two widely different cultures, but he is forced into a white school system, which still, in many ways, merely tolerates his Aboriginal heritage.

Correlates among Computer-Using Teacher Educators' Beliefs, Teaching and Learning Preferences, and Demographics

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard R. Robin ◽  
Judith B. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teaching Styles ◽  
Learning Preferences ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Formal Schooling ◽  
World Views ◽  
Learner Centered ◽  
Concrete Experience

Are teacher educators' teaching styles, learning mode preferences, world views, and demographics related? One hundred seventy-seven technology-using teaching educators working primarily at teacher preparation institutions in North America responded to a ninety-six-item survey to provide initial answers to this question. Several statistically significant correlations with teaching styles were detected. Overall, the technology-using teacher educators in our sample who preferred learner-centered teaching approaches had higher levels of formal schooling, were more often female than male, preferred to learn by concrete experience, and were more social constructionist in their world views. Their learner-centered teaching beliefs were evidenced specifically in preferences for highly participative educational activities and importance ascribed to including and encouraging personal development as part of teacher education.

Exorcizing the Hungry Ghosts: Following the Middle Path in a 21st-Century Western Culture

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. Priester ◽  
Joseph R. Priester
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Western Culture

Unjust World Views Scale

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Lench
Keyword(s):  
World Views

Toxicity in Themes of Control: An Analysis of the Anglo-Western Cancer Rhetoric in A Monster Calls

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 117-129
Author(s):  
Natali Cavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Western Culture ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The World

While infection has always haunted civilizations around the world, there are very few diseases that have had as much of an impact on Western culture as cancer has. The abundance of bereavement literature about characters with cancer begs the question; why cancer? This paper discusses ways in which cancer narratives reinforce Western obsession with control, through the lens of rhetoric and narrative structure. The author will specifically discuss how Patrick Ness’ 2011 novel, A Monster Calls, combats modern illness and cancer narratives and challenges themes of control threaded into Western culture

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