The Stolen Generations policy brings many effects for the Indigenous people in the past. It has its effects even on the Indigenous families and Indigenous communities. These effects on the Indigenous people exist from the past until the present. Besides, many of Indigenous people have its continued effects at the moment because they were taken away from their parents since they were very young. Therefore, the question of research project is about “How does the Stolen Generations policy affect the Indigenous generations nowadays?” The main purposes of this essay are to explain about a review of research findings, a critical analysis of how well the group working together to create this research project and a reflective critical assessment. There will be a second part on this essay to explain how to connect the topic of the research project with the Professional Practice Code which is about “Indigenous Art Code”.
A review of research findings for the research project
I decided to talk about the Stolen Generations policy and its effects in the past and at the moment so I found some interesting books with the main content are about the Stolen Generations policy. Besides, I want to investigate about its effects on the Indigenous families and communities as well so I have decided that I need to found how important of the family concepts and culture of the Indigenous people so I can talk about its effects later on the presentation. I found a book named “The Stolen Generation – Aboriginal family units & culture, effects of the removal of Aboriginal children from their families & communities” by Kaye Healey which has a large amount of information about this policy. In this book, it has the definition about the family concepts, culture and the effects of the Stolen Generations in the past. In addition, I can found the information about community connections, kinship and role model of Indigenous family so I can have a clearly
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