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Indigenous Secondary Education: What Implications For Counsellors Lie In The Stories Of Indigenous Adults, Who As Children, Left Their Home Communities To Attend School?, Suzanne Jenkins
Suzanne Jenkins
Access to a good education is often argued as deserving of the highest priority. The available research pertaining to the educational experience of Australian Indigenous students, however, too often reflects a picture of profound disadvantage, particularly in relation to their non-Indigenous counterparts. In 2008, Prime Minister Rudd announced 20 million of Federal Government funding for 2000 boarding school places over 20 years, to address chronic levels of academic underachievement and ‘close the education gap’ between black and white Australians. Education in Australia, however, is tied to white culture, the industrial economy and the means through which white culture survives, so …