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Author Australia. Commission of Inquiry into Poverty.

Title Poverty and education in Australia : fifth main report, June 1976 / Australian Government Commission of Inquiry into Poverty
Published Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service, 1976

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Description xvii, 297 pages ; 24 cm
Series Fifth main report
Australia. Commission of Inquiry into Poverty. Main report ; 5th
Contents 1. Introduction -- Equal opportunity -- Terma of reference -- Poverty and children -- Education, work and life chances -- 2. Unequal outcomes of schooling -- The pattern of schooling -- Students at school -- Education and incomes -- Summary -- Recommendation -- 3. Children at risk -- Early school leavers -- Poverty and early leaving -- Migrants -- Schooling in rural areas -- School experience and early leaving -- Summary Recommendations -- 4. School policy : The role of teachers -- School supports -- Strategies for learning -- School policy and career education -- Summary -- Recommendations -- 5. Learning and work : Early leavers and the search for competence -- Poor jobs and poor people -- Re-entry to learning -- Migrants in poor jobs -- Summary -- Recommendations -- 6. Aboriginals and education : Educational policies -- Schooling and the Aboriginal child -- The statistical picture -- Non-achievement of educational aims -- Aboriginal aims - educational and general -- Role of non-Aboriginals -- The future -- Summary -- Recommendations -- 7. Perspectives -- 8. Recommendations
Summary Educational policies; statistics on attendance; employment; Aboriginal values against goals of white education; adult education; teacher training; school-community relations; recommendations; bilingual programmes
Notes Commissioner: Dr. Ronald T. Fitzgerald
Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Credits Commissioner: Ronald T. Fitzgerald
Notes In English
Issuing Body Commissioner: R. T. Fitzgerald
Subject Education - Schools - Community relations
Education - Adult education
Education - Language - Bilingual
Education - Teachers - Teacher education
Economics - Income - Poverty and low income
Education - Teachers - Teacher-student relationships
Indigenous knowledge - World view
Aboriginal Australians -- Adult education.
Aboriginal Australians -- Education.
Aboriginal Australians -- Languages.
Adult education -- Australia.
Children with social disabilities -- Education -- Australia.
Economic assistance, Domestic -- Australia.
Education -- Australia.
Poor -- Australia.
SUBJECT Australia -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009585
Author Fitzgerald, R. T. (Ronald Thomas)
Australia. Commission of Inquiry into Poverty. Fifth main report
LC no. 78322979
ISBN 0642023468
Other Titles Fitzgerald report