Towards culturally inclusive teacher education with specific reference to Oceania
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Today, the degree to which such processes influence the way we think and learn largely depends on our ability to clarify for ourselves the differences between our received wisdom (from our formal, mainly western education) and the wisdom of the (home) cultures in which we grew up and were socialised, and from which we continue to learn important knowledge, skills and values. In the context of formal education, the difference between these two sources is the “cultural gap”, which is small for those students whose home cultures are attuned to the culture of formal education but wide for those whose home culture is different.
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