Whitefella school : education and Aboriginal resistance / Ralph Folds
- Bib ID:
- 848331
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Folds, Ralph
- Description:
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- Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 1987
- xviii, 138 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0043701817 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Analyses reasons for failure of Pitjantjatjara schools despite bicultural education policy; Aboriginal resistance to school; conflict between school and community; contribution of assimilationist policies and white institutions towards disintegration of Pitjantjatjara society; petrol sniffing; subsequent workers in schools; advocates community-based and community controlled education (nganampa); employment of Aboriginal teachers.
- Full contents:
- Includes index
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 131-135.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Education -- South Australia
- Pitjantjatjara (Australian people)
- Education - Students
- Education - Teachers - Teacher-student relationships
- Education - Schools - Community schools
- Government policy - Assimilation
- Education - Secondary - Curriculum
- Government policy - State and territory - South Australia
- Government policy - Integration
- Pitjantjatjara language (C6) (NT SG52-11)
- Pitjantjatjara people (C6) (NT SG52-11)
- Education - Achievement
- Education - Teachers - Teacher education
- Education - Language - Indigenous languages
- Education - Teaching
- Substance use - Solvent / Petrol / Glue sniffing
- South Australia - Central Australia (SA SG52, SG53)
- South Central Northern Territory (NT)
- Northern Territory - North NT
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1987
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