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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander School Teachers and Australian Settler Colonialism: A History book cover

1st Edition

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander School Teachers and Australian Settler Colonialism A History

By Kay Whitehead Copyright 2026
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge
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This book addresses the gap in our historical knowledge about the roles Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers have played in Australia's history of school education. To date, there are few references to schooling in histories of Indigenous Australians, and Australian histories of Indigenous education and teacher education omit Indigenous teachers until systemic initiatives were... Read more

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

1. ‘Yet we hear little about ... Indigenous teachers’

2. Indigenous teachers around the British Empire

3. Reinstating Aboriginal school teachers in mid-nineteenth century settler colonial Australia

4. Eliminating Aboriginal teachers in late nineteenth century settler state school systems

5. Multilingual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers in northern Australia during the protection era

6. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers in the assimilation era

7. One thousand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers in a white profession by 1990

8. ‘You can’t be what you can’t see’: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school teachers in the twenty-first century

Index 

Biography

Kay Whitehead is a historian of education whose research focus has been teachers’ lives and work for more than three decades. She has published prolifically on Australian, Canadian and British teachers from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

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