Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney on Closing the Gap

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In Indigenous communities a western world view is presumed to be the best way to teach literacy and maths. Children read books about non-indigenious people and things, never seeing their own lives held up as ideal - and then look at the skin colour of those working for and with them, and the content of most of the literature - and see, graphically, that NONE of it applies to them. I suggest reading Luis Moll's work on Funds of Knowledge to start to work out what to do.