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Aboriginal Pedagogy: Aboriginal Teachers Speak out.

What happens when Aboriginal teachers try to make their community schools less like ‘whitefella’ schools? For many years Northern Territory aboriginal teachers have been worried that Western schooling was helping to destroy their own Aboriginal cultures. They came to understand that it might be possible to invent Aboriginal ways of schooling so that Aboriginal teachers and students would feel comfortable with education in their communities. The teachers whose stories are told here tried to change the nature of their community schools, but they encountered extraordinary resistance to their efforts. Sometimes the resistance reflected explicit racism, sometimes an inability by whites to understand the problems Aboriginal people face and their own part in these problems.