Kay Whitehead is a historian of education whose research focus has been teachers’ lives and work for more than three decades. She has published prolifically on Australian, Canadian and British teachers from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgements1. ‘Yet we hear little about ... Indigenous teachers’2. Indigenous teachers around the British Empire3. Reinstating Aboriginal school teachers in mid-nineteenth century settler colonial Australia4. Eliminating Aboriginal teachers in late nineteenth century settler state school systems5. Multilingual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers in northern Australia during the protection era6. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers in the assimilation era7. One thousand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers in a white profession by 19908. ‘You can’t be what you can’t see’: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school teachers in the twenty-first centuryIndex

Kay Whitehead is a historian of education whose research focus has been teachers’ lives and work for more than three decades. She has published prolifically on Australian, Canadian and British teachers from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgements1. ‘Yet we hear little about ... Indigenous teachers’2. Indigenous teachers around the British Empire3. Reinstating Aboriginal school teachers in mid-nineteenth century settler colonial Australia4. Eliminating Aboriginal teachers in late nineteenth century settler state school systems5. Multilingual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers in northern Australia during the protection era6. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers in the assimilation era7. One thousand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers in a white profession by 19908. ‘You can’t be what you can’t see’: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school teachers in the twenty-first centuryIndex