Learning white way : curriculum, context and custom in schooling Torres Strait Islanders before World War II / Alan Williamson

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Learning white way : curriculum, context and custom in schooling Torres Strait Islanders before World War II / Alan Williamson

Creator

• Williamson, Alan, 1941-

Subject

• Government policy - Initial period and protectionism
• Education - Teaching
• London Missionary Society
• Education - Schools
• Government policy - Assimilation - 1926-1950
• Religions - Christianity - Missions - London Missionary Society
• Education - Primary - Curriculum
• Government policy - State and territory - Queensland
• Defence - World War II
• Education - Language - Literacy

Summary

Article reports on the manner in which the Torres Strait Islanders respond to western school curriculum and coped with European contact in the colonial era prior to World War II; this historical focus concentrates on the role of the London Missionary Society and the Queensland governments rule over the Islands; Islanders valued schooling for its functional consequences expressed in terms of their Island customs; desire for literacy first in the vernacular and then in English was seen as a medium to learn the white way; positive and negative sides of schooling for the Islanders are discussed in the articles conclusion

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