@article{1441830,
      recid = {1441830},
      author = {O'Bryan, Marnie,},
      title = {Boarding and Australia's First Peoples : understanding how  residential schooling shapes lives /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxiv, 345 pages) :},
      abstract = {This book takes us inside the complex lived experience of  being a First Nations student in predominantly  non-Indigenous schools in Australia. Built around the  first-hand narratives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait  Islander alumni from across the nation, scholarly analysis  is layered with personal accounts and reflections. The  result is a wide ranging and longitudinal exploration of  the enduring impact of years spent boarding which  challenges narrow and exclusively empirical measures  currently used to define "success" in education. Used as  instruments of repression and assimilation, boarding, or  residential, schools have played a long and contentious  role throughout the settler-colonial world. In Canada and  North America, the full scale of human tragedy associated  with residential schools is still being exposed. By  contrast, in contemporary Australia, boarding schools are  characterised as beacons of opportunity and hope; places of  empowerment and, in the best, of cultural restitution. In  this work, young people interviewed over a span of seven  years reflect, in real time, on the intended and unintended  consequences boarding has had in their own lives. They  relate expected and dramatically unexpected outcomes. They  speak to the long-term benefits of education, and to the  intergenerational reach of education policy. This book  assists practitioners and policy makers to critically  review the structures, policies, and cultural assumptions  embedded in the institutions in which they work, to the  benefit of First Nations students and their families. It  encourages new and collaborative approaches Indigenous  education programs. .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1441830},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6009-2},
}