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- Title
Economic Justice and Indigenous Education: Assessing the potential of standards-based and progressive education under ILO169.
- Authors
Ma Rhea, Zane; Anderson, Peter J.
- Abstract
The article discusses the educational opportunities afforded to indigenous Australians in the context of the goal of economic justice. The authors suggest that the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples offers a framework for examining the situation of Australia's indigenous communities despite the fact that Australia is not an official signatory to the convention. They assess both the standards-based approach to education represented by the No Child Left Behind law in the U.S. and the progressive approach to education associated with theorists John Dewey and Paolo Freire. They conclude neither approach fully addresses the elements of the ILO convention, and call for elements of both to be synthesized into a more just education system.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; EDUCATION of Aboriginal Australians; ABORIGINAL Australian economic conditions; INDIGENOUS Australians; INDIGENOUS &; Tribal Peoples Convention (1989); PROGRESSIVE education; EDUCATIONAL standards; EDUCATIONAL accountability; INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation
- Publication
Social Alternatives, 2011, Vol 30, Issue 4, p25
- ISSN
0155-0306
- Publication type
Article