Connections, community and context: the importance of post-boarding school pathways and re-engagement for remote Aboriginal students

For many remote Aboriginal Australian students, periods of time during their secondary education are spent living away from home at a boarding school. While financial, political and community support is burgeoning for boarding models that provide scholarships, sports programs or accommodation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, very little academic research or evidence exists that examines the experiences of students post-boarding. This paper forms part of a broader doctoral research study, but specifically focuses on how past students, families and communities from remote Sout ... Show more

Authors: Benveniste, Tessa; Guenther, John; King, Lorraine; Dawson, Drew

Published: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland, 2022

Resource type: Article

Access item: https://doi.org/10.55146/ajie.2022.48

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