Background: Learning by experience in field schools (FSs) depends implicitly on the willingness of local residents to engage with students. Although critical perspectives have highlighted the potential harms of study abroad on local people, their views are less frequently investigated. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to explore the…

Persistent perceptions of deficit and conflict have characterised and constrained the history of relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians since contact. The success of their saturation is apparent in a continuing approach that presents the response to Aboriginal needs in terms of health and education "gaps"; "the…

Kitaskinaw School, once a uniquely integrated school on an Alberta reservation, has seen white enrollment drop from 70 percent to 3 percent between the late 1970s and 1991. Interviews suggest that the white exodus was motivated by white parents' perceptions of cultural differences between Indians and whites and perceived implications for…