Networking Tranby: Indigenous student experiences of enrolment and beyond

点击翻译按钮获取中文摘要

This project aims to explore the experiences of the students of Tranby Aboriginal College during and after their enrolment. Tranby is a post-secondary college which has pioneered innovative subjects and cooperative learning environments in its inner-city campus as well as in communities across Australia. It been Aboriginal-controlled since 1980. Although its staff and courses are well known, the experiences of its students are not. This project aims to use social media and the Tranby archives to record new oral histories to allow analysis of Tranby students' social, political and educational experiences and evaluation of their contribution to Indigenous self-determination and leadership, as well as integration into interdisciplinary collaborative research.