Similar problems and predicaments surround Indigenous education worldwide, although socio-historical conditions vary markedly in first, second and third world countries. In a report concerning the work of the United Nations (IWGIA, 2005, p. 518), it was recorded that.
For many Indigenous peoples the major agency for imposing this positional superiority over knowledge, language and culture was colonial education (Linda Tuhiwai Smith, 1999, p. 64).
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Hooley, N. (2009). National and International Insights. In: Narrative Life. Explorations of Educational Purpose, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9735-5_8
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