On 25 May 99, at 10:52, Trudy Bray wrote about The Australian: Classroom anti-black
bias claim:
> Classroom anti-black bias claim
> By NATALIE O'BRIEN
>
> 25may99
>
> SOME young teachers thought they should avoid having Aboriginal
> students in their classes because they saw them as a threat to
> their authority and ultimately their careers, a Human Rights and
> Equal Opportunities Commission inquiry has been told.
>
> A senior lecturer at Edith Cowan University's school of education,
> Peter Reynolds, told the inquiry into rural and remote education
> that one of the "greatest fears" of young teachers was their ability to
> control a class.
>
>
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> Other areas of concern, he told the inquiry, were that rural
> Aboriginal education programs were being hampered by a
> "nightmare" entanglement of government departments' funding
> sources. In one case, elders had to deal with up to 36 departments
> over the education of their children.
>
> "Aboriginal education is being held up by the Constitution in the
> separation of powers between the Commonwealth and the States."
>
>
Good on Peter, one of the world's nice people./ He is a past Head of
the the Department of Aboriginal and Intercultural Studies at Cowan
Uni. An ex teacher himself and one of the old model Dons who is
multiple Mastered and NOT Phd'd. The ideal first degree lecturer.
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