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What effect does the experience of a coeducational boarding school education have upon a student’s life? The aims of this study were to define an Australian boarding school and report upon the findings of a small-scale qualitative investigation of students’ views in a co-educational boarding school. The personal documents-based humanistic approach of the Polish-American sociologist Znaniecki, as developed for the analysis of personal and group social systems in the culturally diverse context of Australia by Smolicz, was employed to interpret the personal documents data.
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