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Doing it by the numbers? Educational research and teacher education

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  1. These lead into the final chapters on: ‘Exemplary Teacher Education Programs’ and ‘Educating the Teachers America Needs.’

  2. Over this period a number of strategies were put in place to encourage Indigenous people to become teachers. These included the establishment of programs at Batchelor College in the Northern Territory, which by this time had already begun training Aboriginal teachers’ aides and assistants. The Remote Area Teacher Education (RATE) program began at Batchelor in 1976; the Deakin-Batchelor initiative (D-BATE) began in 1986 and operated until the end of 1988; and there were several other ‘enclave’ programs such as UniSA’s ATEP program (1980), the Aboriginal Rural Education Program (AREP) at Macarthur Institute in Sydney (1984), Deakin’s Koori Teacher Education Program [KTEP] (1986), ACU’s Indigenous Education Program (1989) and the Remote Aboriginal Teacher Education Program [RATEP] at James Cook University in North Queensland in 1990. Although these represent significant and successful attempts to increase the numbers of Indigenous teachers, it is clear overall that Indigenous teacher education has only a ‘very short history’ (Grant 1996, p. 94).

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Reid, JA. Doing it by the numbers? Educational research and teacher education. Aust. Educ. Res. 38, 383–400 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-011-0034-8

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