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THE PROBLEM

1.1 Introduction to the problem

Current theorizing underlying policy of Government agencies
maintains that Aborigines must determine their own future.

The problem is that the theorizers, Contexting their views
within a framework of a multi-cultural Australia,cannot see what
this future might be for Aboriginal people and hence exclude
Aboriginal people in the conceptualization of Australia as a multi-
cultural society.

At the same time urban Aboriginal people, taking up the
challenge of determining their own future offered them in the
seventies by Government policy, cannot see what an identity that
is specifically Aboriginal looks like.

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The object of this study is to clarify the components of
the ’worlds’ of meaning of Aboriginal people, including the ‘worlds'
of schooling∕education, and to examine the possibility of structuring
a specifically Aboriginal identity.

1.2 Genesis of the research

The problem for research was originally posed by the Director

of the Aboriginal Community Centre, Adelaide.

In general terms, the issue was one of a concern about
Aboriginal juvenile delinquency, about the apparent disproportion
in the numbers of young Aboriginal people held in detention centres
and prisons. There was a felt need to give meaning to this situation
with the intention of changing it. In particular, the request was
for research which would take into account the world of education
in which young Aboriginal people are found.

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