Aboriginal Culture Advantages And Disadvantages

Aboriginal people are disadvantaged in Australian society. Addressing low literacy levels within indigenous communities provides the catalyst for positive outcomes to the future of Aboriginal people. Growing numbers of indigenous Australians achieving tertiary qualifications advances academic standing, professional standing and employments opportunities for individual and the indigenous community as a whole ( Mellor and Corrigan 2004). Incorporating the fundamental ethos of Aboriginal culture with input from Aboriginal people and applying the outcomes to educational framework enables self-determination of Indigenous Australians. Self-determination would assist in alleviating the burden carried by Aboriginal people of unresolved individual and collective trauma being a direct result of colonisation (Abadian 1999). Recognition of the past is imperative to the health of indigenous communities, also supporting reconciliation of indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Addressing embedded racism within our institutions, however subtle, will enable the healing of the past …show more content…
The need to include perception of Aboriginal values, the link between literacy and health, learning styles and sociocultural patterns when drafting structure for literacy outcomes, is imperative to success. This is being addressed in the Northern Territory by means of work based accreditation for indigenous teachers, strengthening indigenous cultural identity and self-determination whilst providing indigenous early childhood educators with mainstream qualifications (Bat and Fasoli 2013). In relation to work based accreditation, it is imperative that long term support and systematic reviews by key educational bodies guide and assist indigenous communities to achieve targeted learning strategies (Smylie