the Politics of Community Capacity-Building: Contestations, Contradictions, Tensions and Ambivalences in the Discourse in Indigenous Communities in Australia

Australian Journal of Indigenous Education

Volumn 36, Issue S1, 2007, Pages 129-136

  Makuwira, Jonathan ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 85012441750     PISSN: 13260111     EISSN: 20497784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1326011100004804     Document Type: Article

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