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Proceedings of a Summer School held at Dunmore Lang College, Macquarie University, 26-29 Jan. 1974, and sponsored by the Dept of Aboriginal Affairs, N.S.W. Dept of Youth and Community Services, and N.S.W. Dept of Education; includes 26 papers covering various aspects of Aboriginal education; 1) Aboriginal points of view; 2) relevance of curriculum; 3) language; 4) cognitive development; 5) specific learning difficulties; 6) home/school relations; 7) social, health and sex education; 8) recommendations; The following papers are listed separately in the bibliography; 1) E.B. Nettle Aborigines in the school curriculum; 2) P. Dargin The relevance of the curricula to the Aboriginal child; 3) G.A. Pittman - Structure and meaning in English teaching; 4) G. Seagrim - Cognitive development of the Aborigine; 5) B. Watts Home/school relations; 6) W.G. Coppell - Extraschool facilities for Aborigines; 7) B. Watts Personality factors in school achievement; 8) I.S. Mitchell - Whats being done; whats to be done.