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The settler education of anthropologists: Fiona Paisley, ‘Education as anthropology: A.P. Elkin on ‘native education’, the Pacific, and Australia in the 1930s’, History of Education, 2022

02Dec22

Abstract: In 1936, Prof A. P. Elkin attended a seminar in Hawaii lasting several weeks, on the topic of ‘native education’. In his various papers presented to a range of experts from the region and beyond during the formal conference held in Honolulu as part of the residency, Elkin set out his views on the future of the Indigenous people of Australia. Education would be pivotal to this new approach on pragmatic and humanitarian grounds. Elkin concurred with the findings of the residency: local forms of adapted education were considered appropriate for most Aboriginal Australians, only a minority continuing into further education; communities as well as children should be better prepared for their integration into the nation as the Indigenous people. This paper sets out to interrogate the proximity of anthropology and education in these claims, and the elision of Aboriginal people’s agency including their contemporaneous campaigns for equal education.


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