Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ528526
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0024-9033
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Identity and Culture Shock: Aboriginal Children and Schooling in Australia.
Kaplan, Gisela; Eckermann, Anne-Katrin
McGill Journal of Education, v31 n1 p7-24 Win 1996
Observes the activities and characteristics of Aboriginal children in an Aboriginal school and compares these to the culture shock and alienation experienced when they transfer to a mainstream school. Identifies five major stressors of culture shock as mechanical differences, communication, attitudes and beliefs, customs, and isolation. (MJP)
Descriptors: Alienation, Cultural Isolation, Cultural Maintenance, Culture Conflict, Culture Lag, Educational Discrimination, Educational Experience, Educational Policy, Ethnicity, Ethnocentrism, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Modernization, Preschool Education, Relocation, Self Concept, Socialization
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Audience: Teachers; Researchers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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