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Kerwin, Dale Wayne – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2011
Aboriginal children learn a two-way pedagogy and most Aboriginal learners have to engage in bicultural and bilingual education to succeed in the dominant educational setting. Aboriginal Australians pride themselves on being Aboriginal, however Aboriginal epistemology and ontology are never considered as true methodologies within a dominant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Minority Groups, Cultural Differences
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Ovington, Gary – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1994
Two competing theories of "both ways" (dominant culture access and minority culture maintenance) education are examined: Harris' culture domain separation theory and Kemmis'"negotiated meaning" approach. Analysis along three dimensions (view of culture, language, and epistomology/ontology) suggests Harris' theory is based on a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Acculturation, Cultural Influences, Cultural Pluralism
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Ritchie, Annabelle – Babel, 2004
Language ecology, a term developed by Haugen (2001), describes the relationship between languages and the environment in which they exist; that is, how they grow, change, interact and adapt in a Darwinian-like quest for survival. Of the 6000 or so languages in existence today, some are spoken by vast numbers of people, but others are used by very…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Sociolinguistics, Language Maintenance