{"product_id":"taking-our-place-john-cleverley-9781920899387","title":"Taking Our Place: Aboriginal Education and the Story of the Koori Centre at the University of Sydney","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTaking Our Place\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of Aboriginal education and the Koori Centre at the University of Sydney. Within its short history, the university has embodied both the virtues and vices of Australia's public attitudes to Indigenous people. The university's early teaching and research focused on Aboriginal people as ethnographical specimens, a race frozen in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than a century would pass before two students identified as Aborigines, Charles Perkins and Peter Williams, entered the university gates. It was 1963. From that time on, an increasing numbers of Indigenous Australians have studied and worked at the university, contributing their knowledge and understanding to a learning society from which they were once absent. Much more remains to be done.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first account of struggles and outcomes arising from the engagement of Indigenous people with a tertiary institution in Australia, a place established by a white elite for its own purposes on land taken from the Eora people. Today, the University of Sydney promotes and celebrates the diversity of Indigenous education on campus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Cleverley,Janet Mooney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1920899383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781920899387\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sydney University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.82d","brand":"John Cleverley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48217577455871,"sku":"9781920899387","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a0f340da-671d-44a0-9cd6-63c022c42f28.jpg?v=1771998114","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/taking-our-place-john-cleverley-9781920899387","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}