Taking Our Place: Aboriginal Education and the Story of the Koori Centre at the University of Sydney

by John Cleverley and Janet Mooney

Taking Our Place tells the story of Aboriginal education and the Koori Centre at the University of Sydney. Within its short history, the university has embodied both the virtues and vices of Australia's public attitudes to Indigenous people. The university's early teaching and research focused on Aboriginal people as ethnographical specimens, a race frozen in time.

More than a century would pass before two students identified as Aborigines,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1920899383
• ISBN13: 9781920899387
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Sydney University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"