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YOUNG PEOPLE IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
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After reading this chapter, you should be able to answer the following questions:
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• What is education?
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• How did educational institutions become the predominant way education is done? • How is value in educational institutions distributed?
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• How can education be done differently?
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia is an exercise in resistance. You are presented with circumstances where your identity, and humanity itself, is challenged, and it places intense pressure on the mental health of those already dealing with the changes from a physiological and neuroscientific standpoint. The messaging embedded in the media, in advertising and in the curriculum taught at school is all geared towards the superiority of whiteness and the ‘otherising’ of anyone that does not fall within the homogenous idea of ‘Aussie’. (Natalie Cromb, in ‘Growing up in Australia isn’t easy when you’re made to feel different’, ABC News, 9 August 2019.)
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