'Our People Say That They Want Their Children to Be Able to Become Doctors, Nurses, Teachers': Contesting Education and Schooling for Aboriginal Children in South-Eastern Australia in the 1930s

Autor/in	Marsden, Beth
Titel	'Our People Say That They Want Their Children to Be Able to Become Doctors, Nurses, Teachers': Contesting Education and Schooling for Aboriginal Children in South-Eastern Australia in the 1930s
Quelle	In: History of Education, 52 (2023) 5, S.776-795 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Marsden, Beth)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
DOI	10.1080/0046760X.2022.2098389
Schlagwörter	Educational History; Indigenous Populations; Public Schools; Foreign Countries; Access to Education; Activism; Power Structure; Teaching Methods; Academic Standards; Civil Rights; Racial Segregation; Political Attitudes; Institutional Characteristics; Administrator Characteristics; Equal Education; Educational Legislation; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Sinti und Roma; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Ausland; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Rassentrennung; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Australien
Abstract	This paper examines how government approaches to education were contested by Aboriginal communities in the late 1930s, through organised political actions designed in part to ensure access to the same standard of education and schooling available to non-Aboriginal people. It explores some of the ways that Aboriginal campaigns for education were enacted, focusing on the Cummeragunja Aboriginal reserve in New South Wales, when, in 1939, hundreds of residents walked off to protest to the New South Wales Aborigines Protection Board over the repressive conditions, the reserve manager, and the teacher and curriculum of the Cummeragunja school. The strike aimed to generate several changes at Cummeragunja, including the appointment of a new teacher, and the delivery of curriculum that was at the same standard as that delivered in other government schools in NSW. These demands were not unique to the Cummeragunja community as, throughout south-eastern Australia, Aboriginal communities were fighting for access to education alongside campaigns for land and greater civil rights. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01