Talk:Anangu Schools

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Not much here and no references. Barely more than a list. Adam McCormick 06:40, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

possible expansion ideas

It would be good if someone could expand this article to contain more information than just a partial repetition of List of Aboriginal schools in South Australia. Things like size of the schools: numbers of staff, students, subject range, year level range. Can students complete year 12 on the Lands, and if so, how do they adapt to university or further education, or where do they have to go to complete high school and prepare for university? Can anyone source some pictures? --Scott Davis ^Talk 04:33, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

@ScottDavis:

I have the following comments. The word “Anangu” has now been applied to schools located in both Maralinga Tjarutja and Yalata. Therefore “Anangu” is no longer exclusive to Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (AYP). Therefore, I taken the section “Location” and divide it into three new sections for each of the above Aboriginal lands and populated each with brief entries (i.e. name , location, coordinates, student numbers, indigenous percentage and staffing levels) for each of the Anangu Schools using information sourced from the ACARA and the Location SA Map Viewer websites. The brief entries have created as ‘targets’ for Redirects with "R with possibilities" templates.

I will upgrade the opening paragraph of the article later today to include stuff such as the all of the schools do Reception to Year 12 etc.

I also upgraded List of Aboriginal schools in South Australia and re-organised some of the education-related categories. I have also added content to the articles about Oodnadatta and Raukkan re the aboriginal schools located in those places.

Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 01:31, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! Do you think that Nyangatjatjara College should be added as it appears to be Anangu but neither a government school nor in South Australia? It appears to have four campuses in southern NT. I haven't found if there are any NT government schools or any that should be included from WA too. --Scott Davis ^Talk 04:04, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

References

@ScottDavis:

Thanks for the message – I advise the following:

1. Firstly, the article is as complete as I can get it at the moment. I have re-assessed it as ‘Start’ for WikiProject Australia. I have left it as ‘Stub’ for WikiProject Schools because this particular project appears to have very high requirements for articles. I think any future activity re this subject area should be focused on the expansion of the ‘redirects’ into separate articles, although the apparent lack of suitable sources in respect to both ‘Aboriginality’ and ‘Education’ may be a barrier to expansion.
2. 'Anangu' vs 'Aboriginal' – while I can presume why, I could not find anything online that explains why the SA Government has decided to specifically identify the ten schools as ‘Anangu’ rather than as ‘Aboriginal’. The concept of ‘Anangu’ has appeared to confuse some editors. In particular,  List of schools in South Australia had been changed in the past to have ‘Anangu’ and ‘Aboriginal’ schools treated effectively as being separate categories. I recently edit the article to move ‘Anangu’ back to being a sub-set of ‘Aboriginal’ which I think is the appropriate perspective for that article.
3. Nyangatjatjara College – I do not think it is appropriate to add the article about the college to the Anangu Schools article because the ten ‘Anangu’ schools are SA Government funded and operated schools whose student body is mainly aboriginal. This is despite the commonality in language and/or culture.

Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 11:05, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

@Cowdy001: Thank you. The article is developed now to more clearly be about SA state (government/public) schools, so Nyangatjatjara College doesn't fit the scope so well any more. I agree that "Anangu" is a subset of "Aboriginal". --Scott Davis ^Talk 14:48, 16 August 2019 (UTC)