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Lindsay, Karen; And Others – Unicorn, Bulletin of the Australian College of Education, 1987
Based on interviews with five Islamic respondents, this paper investigates stricter Islamic parents' difficulties with certain assumptions and practices of Australian education, particularly health and physical education. Concerns about modesty and separation of sexes conflict with central aims based on equal educational opportunities and equality…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education