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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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