Essays about: "indigenous Australian education"

Found 4 essays containing the words indigenous Australian education.

  1. 1. Cultural collisions in social work – The case of Aboriginal clients in Australia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan

    Author : Sara Lundberg; [2010]
    Keywords : Australiskt socialt arbete; urbefolkning; aboriginer; literature review; Australian social work; Aboriginal; indigenous; litteraturstudie; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Problems in social work with aboriginal clients in Australia are analysed in this thesis. The cultural collision between Western social workers and aboriginal clients is interpreted as the result of poor insight into the culturally determined worldview, the value system, norms and conceptions held by many aboriginal clients. READ MORE

  2. 2. 'It's in our culture' - A qualitative case study on Indigenous Australians' experiences of learning at the organisation QATSIHWEPAC

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Pedagogik

    Author : Jenny Sjöblom; Charlotte Wernesten; [2006]
    Keywords : indigenous Australians; Aboriginals; indigenous Australian development; indigenous Australian education; cultural differences; learning; Sociology; Sociologi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In every population there are groups of minorities. These minority groups are often underrepresented on the labour market. This led us to the question whether or not this under representation is connected to the absence of cultural appropriate pedagogy in the education. In this study the specific minority group in focus is Indigenous Australians. READ MORE

  3. 3. White Fellas Owning the Land, Black Fellas Belonging to the Land: Mapping Institutionalised Racism in Australia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Mathilda Piehl; [2004]
    Keywords : Racism; environment; discourse; colonialism; power; radioactive waste; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Access to resources and the holding of dominant perceptions about the environment is about power, the thesis is looking deeper into the structures that allow a new form of nuclear colonisation to control the life of the Aboriginal people in the South Australian desert. The question of the thesis is whether the Department of Education Science and Training has produced a Draft EIS containing a racist discourse. READ MORE

  4. 4. The Indigenous People in Australia - Examination of Child Removal Policies from a Human Rights Perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Gabriella Lundh; [2001]
    Keywords : Folkrätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, the Indigenous peoples of Australia, inhabited this continent thousands of years before the arrival of the Europeans. Prior to the arrival of the white man the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, hereafter referred to as the Aboriginals, practiced their own culture and applied their own laws without interference from external powers. READ MORE