Boarding and Australia's First Peoples : understanding how residential schooling shapes lives / Marnie O'Bryan.
O'Bryan, Marnie, author.
2021
LC3501.A3 O37 2021
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Title Boarding and Australia's First Peoples : understanding how residential schooling shapes lives / Marnie O'Bryan.
Author O'Bryan, Marnie, author.
ISBN 9789811660092 (electronic book)
9811660093 (electronic book)
9789811660085
9811660085
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6009-2
Published Singapore, Singapore : Springer, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 345 pages) : color illustration
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-16-6009-2 doi
Call Number LC3501.A3 O37 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 371.829/9915
Summary 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. .
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 21, 2022).
Series Indigenous-settler relations in Australia and the world, 2524-5775 ; volume 3
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Part I. Providing context. Understanding the historical context
Boarding schools
First person: Context is everything
Part II. Expectations and transitions. The purpose and presumed benefits of boarding; parents and alumni
The purpose and presumed benefits of Indigenous programs : education participants
Transition to boarding
First person: Haste, hope and hubris
Part III. Factors constraining success and how to neutralise them. Homesickness
First person: Getting lost, being found
Trauma
First person: Courage
Encountering cultural dissonance, racial stereotypes and racism at school
First person: Challenging structures of power
Part IV. Factors enabling success and how to maximise them. Family support and finding a voice
First person: Two grandsons, two schools
Resilience and developing a resistant mind-set
Metamorphosis. Fighting the good fight
Part V. Education dilemma. Education policy, choice and remote education. Lest we forget
Understanding the cost/benefit of boarding with reference to football
First person: Football, flourishing and capabilities
First person: Success. Or what cost education?
Part VI. First person: Reflections on the impact of boarding. First person: Accountability
First person: Success, sacrifice and identity
First person: The power of positive relationships
First person: Trauma and why identity matters
First person: The power of insider knowledge
Part VII. Driving change. Truth telling and transformations
First person: Turning the ship around
Conclusion.

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