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Whitefella education won’t work : Comments
By Jan Ferguson, published 21/4/2008To achieve better educational outcomes for Indigenous Australians we need to give tangible evidence that we value their cultures as much as we value our own.
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Her Pacific solutions were somewhat similar to her solutions for Aboriginal Australians, glibly describing the communal culture of Papua New Guinea villagers as socialism.
Hughes is no small time academic. She is listened to by power brokers in Canberra. She shows empathy for the downtrodden and disempowered whilst proffering hard solutions that appear to solve the problem from our perspective but with little empathy for the cultures that are under discussion - a recipe for failure anyway.
By all means read her stuff, but at the end of a 40 foot barge poll.