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Troubling Cultural Fault Lines: Some Indigenous Australian Families' Perspectives on the Landscape of Early Childhood Education
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Fleer, Marilyn – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2006
Drawing on Vygotsky's (1997a) concept of "fossilized behavior", this study examines the cultural fault lines between the imagined community (Anderson, 1991) of early childhood education and some Australian Indigenous families. Through creating a social space within which Indigenous families could examine dominant and taken-for-granted…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Family Attitudes