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Indigenous Health

Indigenous Secondary Education: What implications for counsellors lie in the stories of Indigenous adults who, as children, left home communities to attend school?

Access to a ‘good’ education is often argued as deserving of the highest priority.  The available research and policy literature pertaining to the educational experience of Australian Indigenous students, however, too often reflects a pattern of profound disadvantage, particularly in comparison to their Non-Indigenous counterparts. One contribution towards enhancing the prospects of educational attainment of young Indigenous students has been the initiative of a number of prestigious schools that have offered places/academic scholarships to intellectually able Indigenous children. For some students, accepting these offers has entailed leaving their families and home communities, so the opportunities promised may also have a ‘shadow side’.
The purpose of this study is to discover what implications for counselling practice lie in the self-report of the ‘lived experience’ of an adult sample of participants who, as children, experienced leaving home to attend school.

Investigator: Suzanne Jenkins
Contact: Suzanne.Jenkins@nd.edu.au

Nulungu Centre for Indigenous Studies