Why Are So Many Aboriginal Children Not Achieving At School
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4342827 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeff Guider (Western Sydney University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 42-53 |
| Publication date | 1991-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Aboriginal Child at School (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0310-5822 • E-ISSN: 2059-9242 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0310582200007410 |
| OpenAlex | W1795533166 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
In 1988 the Aboriginal Education Policy Task Force called for broad equity between Aboriginal people and other Australians in access, participation, and outcomes at all stages of education. Aboriginals are not achieving a comparative level of success at school compared to non-Aboriginals. Symptomatic of problems in our schools are, the over representation of Aboriginals in lower classes, the high drop-out rate of Aboriginal children and their low participation rates in the senior years of high school. Some 17% of Aboriginal youth continue their schooling to year 12 compared to 49% of all students (Department of Employment, Education and Training, 1988, p.7). The failure of Aboriginal children to achieve at school has been widely interpreted as an individual failure on the part of Aboriginal children. Poor attainment has been attributed to lower I.Q. and ability, inadequate home environments, and poor parenting and not to the inadequacies of the education provided, to prejudices Aboriginal children face or to the active resistance by Aboriginal people to the cultural destruction implicit in many educational programs (McConnochie, 1982, p.20). An examination of the determinants of school success shows that Aboriginal children's cultural values, beliefs and practices and Australian schools are often in conflict. To improve the outcomes for Aboriginal children schools are required to assess whether or not they are catering for the inherent needs and talents of individual Aboriginal children
Demographic economics · Drop out · Medical education · Political science · Project commissioning · Publishing · Social science · Sociology · Early Childhood Education and Development · Education Systems and Policy · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Medicine · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.09 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 1998 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |