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Author Nurcombe, Barry, 1933-

Title Children of the dispossessed : a consideration of the nature of intelligence, cultural disadvantage, educational programs for culturally different people, and of the development and expression of a profile of competencies / Barry Nurcombe
Published [Honolulu] : University Press of Hawaii, [1976]
©1976

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Description xxv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Culture Learning Institute monograph
East-West Culture Learning Institute. A Culture Learning Institute monograph
Culture Learning Institute monograph
Contents Includes index
Summary Discussion of the concept of intelligence; Jensens theory of racial differences in an intellectual potential; the concept of cultural deprivation, disadvantage and difference; pre-school techniques; the history, cultural setting & educational difficulties of Australian Aborigines; the development and results of the Bourke pre-school programme; provides a theoretical framework encompassing potential, competence and performance
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 243-259
Event [1976]
Subject Project Enrichment of Childhood (Bourke, N.S.W.)
Aboriginal Australians -- Education (Preschool) -- Case studies.
Aboriginal Australians -- Education.
Children with social disabilities -- Education (Preschool) -- Australia -- Case studies.
Children with social disabilities -- Education -- Australia.
Nature and nurture -- Australia -- Case studies.
Nature and nurture.
Author East-West Culture Learning Institute.
LC no. 75035981
ISBN 0824803620