TY  - SER
AU  - Taylor,Anthea Jo
TI  - Coming, ready or not: Aboriginal children's transition to school in urban Australia and the policy push
PY  - 2011///
KW  - Readiness for school
N2  - Concern that too many Australian children, particularly Indigenous children, are not ready to start school has spurred a series of changes to the pre-school sector. Included among these changes are nationwide mass surveying and the introduction of a unified curriculum framework together with moves towards standardised entry assessment. Focusing on Indigenous children in mainstream schools in settled Western Australia, it is argued that such measures have a limited capacity to address misplaced notions of deficit and assist Indigenous children in making the transition to school. Currently missing from policy and profession is a deeper understanding of Indigenous culture and language use
ER  -