2021
DOI: 10.3828/jlh.2021.17
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Surviving School and “Survival Schools”: Resistance, Compulsion and Negotiation in Aboriginal Engagements with Schooling

Abstract: In Australia, Aboriginal peoples have sought to exploit and challenge settler colonial schooling to meet their own goals and needs, engaging in strategic, diverse and creative ways closely tied to labour markets and the labour movement. Here, we bring together two case studies to illustrate the interplay of negotiation, resistance and compulsion that we argue has characterised Aboriginal engagements with school as a structure within settler colonial capitalism. Our first case study explains how Aboriginal fami… Show more

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“…Eddie Mabo describes how his Black Community School in Townsville, which ran for 12 years from 1972, was driven by his basic recognition that a school controlled by the Aboriginal community would have the interests of Aboriginal children at its heart (Loos and Mabo, 1996). Thomas and Marsden (2021, forthcoming), describe how Aboriginal engagements with schooling have been driven by resistance and negotiation to ensure survival in a settler society, including the set up of the independent Strelley school by the Pilbara social movement in the 1970s.…”
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“…Eddie Mabo describes how his Black Community School in Townsville, which ran for 12 years from 1972, was driven by his basic recognition that a school controlled by the Aboriginal community would have the interests of Aboriginal children at its heart (Loos and Mabo, 1996). Thomas and Marsden (2021, forthcoming), describe how Aboriginal engagements with schooling have been driven by resistance and negotiation to ensure survival in a settler society, including the set up of the independent Strelley school by the Pilbara social movement in the 1970s.…”
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confidence: 99%