From Assimilation towards Reconciliation with Amy Levai, Nee O'Donoghue (1930-2013), South Australia's First Qualified Aboriginal Infant Teacher

Autor/inn/en	Whitehead, Kay; Schulz, Sam; MacGill, Belinda
Titel	From Assimilation towards Reconciliation with Amy Levai, Nee O'Donoghue (1930-2013), South Australia's First Qualified Aboriginal Infant Teacher
Quelle	In: Australian Educational Researcher, 50 (2023) 2, S.221-235 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Whitehead, Kay) ORCID (Schulz, Sam) ORCID (MacGill, Belinda)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0311-6999
DOI	10.1007/s13384-021-00484-2
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Indigenous Populations; Females; Early Childhood Teachers; Racism; Resilience (Psychology); Educational Policy; Professional Autonomy; Social Justice; Activism; Teacher Qualifications; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sinti und Roma; Weibliches Geschlecht; Early childhood; Early childhood education; Teacher; Teachers; Frühe Kindheit; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Rassismus; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Berufsfreiheit; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Lehrqualifikation; Australien
Abstract	This article honours Amy Levai, nee O'Donoghue (1930-2013) who was a member of the Stolen Generations and South Australia's first Aboriginal woman to qualify as an infant teacher. Beginning with Amy's childhood at Colebrook Home and schooling, the article highlights her agency and resilience in countering racism to qualify and teach in the South Australian education department from January 1958. With the marriage bar still in place she was required to resign in 1965, but rejoined the state school system in the early 1970s. Negotiating nationwide policy shifts from assimilation to reconciliation, and concomitant education and curriculum reforms, Amy Levai taught in several schools including the Kaurna Plains Aboriginal school which opened in 1986. Always focussed on education as the key to social justice for Aboriginal and white Australians, Amy's reconciliation activism during her retirement is foregrounded in the final section of the article. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01