What Are You Doing For Us? - ATSIM
The untold story of Karalundi, 1954-2004
By Stephen Piez
Paperback, 177 pages
ATSIM, 2006
ISBN: 9780646468464
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Tells the story of Karalundi Aboriginal Education Centre - a unique Aboriginal community in WA, which is working to overcome the challenges of history and the environment to build a future for its young people through education and faith.
CHAPTER I What are you doing for us?
- Early Seventh-day Adventist missionary endeavours
- The time was not right
- Winds of change
- The people of the region
CHAPTER II Building the dream: 1954—63
- Securing the land
- The initial building phase
- Expanding the operation
- Relating to cultural differences
- Early challenges
- School leavers
- Managing a state school in a mission program
CHAPTER III Going it alone: 1964—72
- Expanding the farm
- Ongoing challenges
- Local Aboriginal employees
- Educational focus
- Scaling down the farm
- Attitudes and a changed sociopolitical milieu
CHAPTER IV Abandoning the dream 1972-84
- Adopting a firm approach
- Educational emphases
- Conflicts
- Closing Karalundi Mission
- Contrasting attitudes
- Broken promises and a legacy of abandonment
CHAPTER V Redefining the dream
- The context of Change
- Why parents wanted to reopen Karalundi
- Opposition and support
- A school or community?
- Locus of control
- Educational strategies
- Dormitories
- Other developments
- Future plans
EPILOCUE: Fifty years on
- Reasons for success
- Relating to culture
- Honouring the past
- A new way of thinking
- Looking to the future
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