Indigenous Education Policy Analysis

Education policy has changed throughout history, where today it has evolved to become more inclusive.

Education policy does not exist in isolation, and it is impacted by many factors, the policy inevitably involves historical issues. Educational institution policies have been reshaped in particular forces ways sometime (Connell, Welch, Vickers, Foley, Bagnall, Hayes, Proctor, Sriprakash, Campbell, 2013 p.187). Equality for Aborigines in education is essential to the economic, social and cultural development of Aboriginal communities (Hughes 1988) Underlying Indigenous inequality in education, the research question is what social perspectives have been expressed by the Indigenous education policy and how the policy has changed?

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The voices are especially powerful. The Constitution permitted this discrimination and Aboriginal people want it changed, to deny them their right as equal citizens. The change would hardly be radical (Morning Herald September 22- 2014).

Indigenous education can be divided into two problems: inequality and low achievement. Indigenous students, their disadvantage learning performance have roots in history. Take for example the children school in 1814, the education was not continual as the white children’s study. It just was in short periods of “vigorous activity” and is interspersed with long periods of apathy or exclusion (Grote, 2008; skarff

Indigenous education policies have demonstrated improving Indigenous student learning outcome. The inequality and low achievement still challenged in education. We need no longer be controlled by the past negative images (Johnston 1991 p.25) An important site, illuminating, objective, and educational and user friendly should be streamed into all educational institutions and libraries throughout Australia (Lind 1999). The new Aboriginal Education Policies have achieved and significantly improving Indigenous students’ learning outcomes and demonstrating success in Indigenous education. The adult’s students’ further study, the children and young people are embarrassed in basic education. A better learning environment is created by support from both government and community. The new generation in university is struggling for establish a brand new and quality Aboriginal expert teacher team.

Aboriginal education has embarked a new chapter. The over half million minority group people of who are statistically the poorest and most uneducated group in Australia has changed their life. More adult students begin their further study on their own land. The change in Aboriginal education from the gap of about “200 years” would hardly be radical. But if the policy is on the tract, we believe that the gap might be