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Pre-service Teachers, Aboriginal Students and the Cross-cultural ‘Playing Field’: Empowering Futures

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Pre-service teachers have an impact on their classrooms. How they manage communication in a cross-cultural space remains a challenge in teacher education. Moving beyond classroom management, this chapter explores how pre-service teacher education candidates understand their subjectivities and impact on indigenous students.

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Notes

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    Australian Government, DEEWR [1].

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    Bone [2], pp. 125–137.

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    Bennet and Moriarty [3].

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    Rowe [4]; Australian Government, DEEWR [5].

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    Bennet and Moriarty [3].

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    Board of Studies NSW [6].

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    Garmon [7].

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    Bennet and Moriarty [3].

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    Perso [8], p. 3.

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    Perso [8].

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    Partington [9].

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    Frelin [10].

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    Frelin [10].

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    Australian Government, DEEWR [1].

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    Bone [2].

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    Harrison [11].

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    Department of Education and Training [12].

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    Purdie et al. [13].

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    Australian Government, DEEWR [14].

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    Hickling-Hudson [15].

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    Partington [9].

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    Australian Government DEEWR [14].

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    Hickling-Hudson [15].

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    Reiter and Davis [16].

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    Riley and Ungerleider [17].

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    Bennet and Moriarty [3].

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Bennet, M., Moriarty, B. (2016). Pre-service Teachers, Aboriginal Students and the Cross-cultural ‘Playing Field’: Empowering Futures. In: Brabazon, T. (eds) Play: A Theory of Learning and Change. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25549-1_7

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