The resistance perspective -- Dependency -- Pitjantjatjara culture and school -- Resistance -- Teaching and learning -- The petrol sniffers -- The girls -- Education and cultural stress -- The future of Pitjantjatjara schooling -- Conclusion -- Appendices 1-6
Summary
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
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-135) and index
Notes
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
