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Series 6: National Aboriginal Education Committee, 1980-1987

The National Aboriginal Education Committee was set up to provide advice to the Minister of Education and the Department of Education on Aboriginal views on the educational needs of Aboriginal people, and to monitor existing policies and programs. Mabo became involved in this Committee through his work for the Black Community School, and was a Committee member between 1975 and 1978. Papers from this period do not appear to have survived. This Series documents Mabo's continued interest in the work of the Committee during the 1980s.

 

Folder 1 Conference and training papers, 1980-1981
Proceedings of the Fifth National Aboriginal Education Conference, 1980 (91 pp). Aboriginal and Islander Community Worker Training Program, 'Field Project Reports', Townsville College of Advanced Education, 1981 (87 pp).
Folder 2 Conference papers, reports and newsletters, 1982-1983
'NAEC Paper on Aboriginal Schools', roneoed, April 1982 (15 pp.). NAEC Conference report, Perth, July 1982, roneoed (6 pp). Draft discussion paper 'Man Power Planning: Preparing Aboriginal Teachers in Australia for the 1980s' by Vic Forrest, 1982 (13 pp). 'Aboriginal Studies: A Response to the Commonwealth Aboriginal Studies Working Group Report to the Australian Education Council' by John Lester, December 1982 (41 pp). Two issues of Ngali: School of Australian Linguistics Newsletter, 1982-1983.
Folder 3 Conference and other papers, c.1984
'Strategies for Teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students in Queensland Schools', Queensland Department of Education, 1984 (18 sheets). Conference papers from the NAEC/JCU National Conference: Aborigines and Islanders in Higher Education: The Need for Institutional Change.
Folder 4-5 Papers for the National Aboriginal Education Conference, Bendigo, 1981
Folder 6 Submission to House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Education by Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Education Advisory Committee (19 pp.), June 1981
Folder 7 Committee report and paper, 1976-1982
Progressive report of National Aboriginal Education Committee Conference recommendations, 1976-1980. National Aboriginal Education Committee paper on schools, 1982 (15 pp.).
Folder 8 Report of Aboriginal Independent Schools Workshop, Darwin, February 1982
Folder 9 Papers for Torres Strait Islander Education Workshop, Thursday Island, December 1983
Folder 10-12 Papers for National Conference on Aborigines and Islanders in Higher Education, Townsville, July 1985
Folder 13 Miscellaneous papers
Include: a proposal for an Aboriginal Institute for Education and Cultural Studies; an Institute of American Indian Arts catalog; and notes on Aboriginal leadership.
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