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Claiming Space: Aboriginal Students Within School Landscapes, Cathy Van Ingen, Joannie Halas
Claiming Space: Aboriginal Students Within School Landscapes, Cathy Van Ingen, Joannie Halas
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
There is an emerging body of theoretical, historical and design research that examines the ways in which race and cultural identity are understood to be produced and represented in the landscape. Yet, there remains a dearth of research examining both the historic and contemporary effects of race upon the development of school geographies. This paper has two broad purposes. It highlights the experiential aspects of racialized geographies within schools and, at the same time, it grapples with the processes that maintain or challenge the spatial conditions for the construction of whiteness. Drawing upon in-depth case study research this paper highlights …