this vision did not happen within Frasers time as being the Prime
Minister, it did influence the future of the Indigenous Australians and
their education. (Kaye. 2012 p.7)
Today there are many programs and courses that encourage
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to become teachers or
teachers aids within classrooms. This is because culturally they have
a better understanding and comprehension of how to teach
Indigenous children due to cultural and language barriers although
there are still very little Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander
Teachers.
A major historical event that has influenced the segregation and
exclusion of Australian Indigenous in education is the time of the
Stolen Generation which was a policy made by the Australian
Government called the Aborigines Protection Amending Act 1915.
Under the act the Aboriginal Protection board had the ability and
permission to remove any child without parental consent if the child
was being neglected within their families and homes. When the
aboriginal children were removed from their homes, they were
usually taken to missions, which were similar to boarding schools.
These missions were religious constitutions where they were taught
the European curriculum. The performance of indigenous childrens
education within these missions was seen as poor but there were
many factors that have seemed to influence the way in which the
aboriginal pupils learnt (Broome, 1982, p. 184) The curriculum did
adapt the goals they had for their indigenous students aiming to
teach aboriginal children by the age of 14 what state school pupils
learned by the age of 8 (Broome, 1982, p. 185) Although this was
an adaptation to help benefit the indigenous Australian children,
their was no adaption to the actual curriculum to help them better
understand and learn in a language that wasnt their own and a
curriculum that was unlike their easy-going cultural ways of
learning. Within this indigenous Australian education in the early
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