Economics Assignment : Education
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Economics Assignment : Education
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1ECONOMICS ASSIGNMENTIntroduction:Education is one of the essential and integral parts of every economy that aids it to havegrowth through optimal utilisation of the resources and ability to develop essential technologies(Fägerlind and Saha 2016). Considering the case of Australia it can be seen that the country hashigh literacy rate; however, in recent days an increasing public discourse throughout theNorthern Territories has came to rigorous debates (Alford and Muir 2004). Being the residents ofthe Northern Territories one can outline that rising number of colonisation in the past hasresulted in domination of foreign culture over the ethnicity of the native Australian. It has notonly deprived them from the economic perspective, in addition it has lead to segregation invarious other factors like education, housing, employment opportunities (Ullah 2016). In thiscontext, this essay is aimed to discuss the effect of past history of remoteness of many towns inthe Northern Territories from perspective of an indigenous Australian who is living in this areafor his whole life. Moreover, through critically analyzing the present scenario of the NorthernTerritories, it will provide education framework that can address the requirement of education forthe indigenous people. Recognizing the truth of the past:Australia is one of the developed nations; however during being one of the mineral richcountries it attracted lots of colonisation since 1788 (Alford and Muir 2004). According to theAltman (2006), repercussion effect of this colonisation has brought destructive effect on theeconomic and social structure of the native Australians. Ranging from land dispossession of theaboriginals to suppression of the native languages of the indigenous Australians in the NorthernTerritory has demolished the civic as well as the social culture of the remote Northern Territorytowns. Next to this, over increasing external political influence and excessive welfare
2ECONOMICS ASSIGNMENTdependency has provided government basis for collapsing the organisation throughout NorthernTerritories. One of the most crippling blows was come in as the form of inadequate social servicefor the aboriginals. Over the period it has been observed that public expenditure for the issuesrelated to health and education of the native Australians has gradually decreased. It has lead topoor socioeconomic as well as academic performance of the indigenous people from Australia.According to the (Biddle 2011), successive government plans has failed to consider theimportance of separate education plan for the aboriginals, which has caused in poor literacy rateof the native Australians. Moreover, it has also been found that assimilation policies by theAustralian government has summarily ignored the views and need of indigenous Australiansleading to high dropouts and poor standard of living. Since, last three decades there has beenmerely no improvement in the education front in the Northern Territories and educationassistance from government has fell short to the desired level leading to widening gap betweenindigenous and non-indigenous people. Critical analysis of the present situation:Indigenous Australians are the native Australians who are presently being suffering fromserious issues of colonisation in the country during the past centuries. Recent analysis of thesocioeconomic parameters highlights that aboriginals are having poor outcomes compared to thenon-indigenous population of the country. Considering the drastic exploitation of the lives of theindigenous Australians, disadvantage in the field of education is broad in present day. Accordingto the statistics, more than 45.65% of the aboriginal adults are functionally illiterate and 51% ofnative Australian population fails to achieve the national minimum average in grammar, spellingand punctuation (Allen 2015).18% of the native Australian population from the towns ofNorthern Territories has failed to achieve national minimal in writing and reading standards
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