Stories of Indigenous Success in Australian Sport Journeys to the AFL and NRL /

• Main Authors: Light, Richard (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Robert Evans, John (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Sports-Sociological aspects.; Culture.; Educational sociology.; Australasia.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.; Sociology of Culture.; Sociology of Education.; Australasian Culture.

This book presents journeys of sixteen Indigenous Australian athletes from their first touch of a 'footy' to the highest levels of Australian football and rugby league, conceptualized as a process of learning. The authors challenge simplistic explanations of Indigenous success in Australia...