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Author Williamson, Alan.

Title Schooling the Torres Strait Islanders 1873-1941 : context, custom and colonialism / Alan Williamson
Published Underdale, S. Aust. : Aboriginal Research Institute Publications, Faculty of Aboriginal and Islander Studies, University of South Australia, 1994

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 W'PONDS  370.99438 Wil/Stt  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 213 pages : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 25 cm
Summary Colonial history of Torres Strait Islanders and the roles played by the London Missionary Society (L.M.S.) and the Queensland government in the process of schooling from 1873 to 1941; emergence and development of L.M.S. and Queensland government schooling in the Torres Strait; missionary and government education policies and their implementation; curriculum patterns; roles of non-Indigenous and Indigenous teachers and the training of Islanders for teaching; appropriation of and resistance to schooling; evaluation of schooling in terms of Island custom
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography pages 197-207
Subject Education -- Australia -- Torres Strait Islands (Qld.) -- History -- 19th century.
Education -- Australia -- Torres Strait Islands (Qld.) -- History.
Missions -- Australia -- Torres Strait Islands (Qld.) -- History.
Missions -- Australia -- Queensland -- Torres Strait Islands -- History
Torres Strait Islanders -- Education -- Australia -- Queensland -- History.
Author University of South Australia. Aboriginal Research Institute.
LC no. 95215277
ISBN 0868030988