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Description of  Boarding and Australia's First Peoples: Understanding How Residential Schooling Shapes Lives (Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World, 3)

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. Read more