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from the traditional culture that is mediated to them, mostly by
white people, and adapted to various Aboriginal social contexts.
Jenkins' (1979) book, Conquest of the Ngarrindjeri-, .has .been a
resource for people from Point McLeay in structuring a 'culture'.

For Strelley, the culture is Contexted into the unwritten Law.
Adaptations, made of necessity to meet new situations, are made
by the decisions of the group. The culture is mediated by
tradition, from one generation to another.
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At Pt. Augusta, Aboriginal culture is encountered both in the
lives of the traditional people and in a mediated form. In the
schools, even in the mediated form, Aboriginal studies are taught
by Aboriginal people, not by white people, an important difference
from the situation in Adelaide in the social construction of a
'culture'.
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The survey of identials suggest that there are clear indications
of the reality of the models of Aboriginal society offered, 'that
the Strelley model does have quite different characteristics from
that at Pt. Augusta, which again differs from that of Adelaide.

There is a greater group coherence of Aboriginal people at
Pt. Augusta,, a greater recognition by white society of the
people as a group parallel to white society.

The question now to be asked is whether the 'worlds' of
schooling may be seen to reflect the 'worlds' of the wider
society. The 'worlds' of institutions studied will now be
examined.

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