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This chapter is the testimony of a grandmother who was the primary support person for grandsons who attended two different elite schools. Her experience in each was vastly different, despite the schools having similar socio-educational and socio-economic institutional profiles.
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Koori(e) is a demonym for Aboriginal Australians from south eastern Australia. The word derives from the Awabakal language.
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Buchanan, A., & Rotkirch, A. (2018). Twenty-first century grandparents: global perspectives on changing roles and consequences. Contemporary Social Science, 13(2), 131–44.
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O’Bryan, M. (2021). First Person: Two Grandsons, Two Schools. In: Boarding and Australia's First Peoples. Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World, vol 3. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6009-2_15
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