Learning for liberation : values, actions and structures for social transformation through Aboriginal communities

• Main Author: Hockey, Neil Edward
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Queensland University of Technology 2007
• Subjects: Aboriginal communities; child protection; decolonising research; self-emancipation; critical realism; spirituality; Bhaskar; Alford; First Nations
• Online Access: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16520/

Negative perceptions of being Aboriginal persist and policies such as self-determination are generally perceived to have failed despite many texts to the contrary. This thesis examines assumptions and presuppositions within contemporary writings and practices, determining in the process, conditions...