Cultural competence in Aboriginal education service delivery in Australia: Some lessons from the Aboriginal health service sector
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2009
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Dunbar, T.
Scrimgeour, M.
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Jeffery, P.L.
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Creating Global Networks: a Capital Idea, 2009 / Jeffery, P.L. (ed./s), pp.1-17
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Australian Association for Research in Education: International Education Research Conference 2009 (30 Nov 2009 - 3 Dec 2009 : Canberra, Australia)
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The increasingly multicultural profile of the Australian population positions the development of cultural competence within education institutions and in the professional practice of educators as an important consideration. If positive change is to be achieved in the education field then some hard questions need to be answered. It is important to know how organisations identify and support sustainable changes to staff behaviours in multilingual and multicultural service delivery contexts. It is also necessary to know what is needed to prepare human service professionals for working with diverse communities. This paper explores these questions and sets out to establish a case for government, universities, Aboriginal and other minority group communities to work together to develop sustainable strategies, systems and curricula in a joint endeavour to dramatically improve the cultural competence levels of education and other human service professionals.
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Copyright 2009 Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)