Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander School Teachers and Australian Settler Colonialism

This book addresses the gap in our historical knowledge about the roles Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers have played in Australia's history of school education. Recommended for upper-level undergraduates and academics in Indigenous education, history of education, teacher education and teachers work.

Kay Whitehead is a historian of education whose research focus has been teachers' lives and work for more than three decades. She has published prolifically on Australian, Canadian and British teachers from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

Table of Contents Acknowledgements 1. 'Yet we hear little about ... Indigenous teachers' 2. Indigenous teachers around the British Empire 3. Reinstating Aboriginal school teachers in mid-nineteenth century settler colonial Australia 4. Eliminating Aboriginal teachers in late nineteenth century settler state school systems 5. Multilingual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers in northern Australia during the protection era 6. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers in the assimilation era 7. One thousand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers in a white profession by 1990 8. 'You can't be what you can't see': Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school teachers in the twenty-first century Index