Beginning in 2016, the Aboriginal Voices project emerged from Kevin Lowe’s (Gubbi Gubbi) doctoral research. It was conducted as a two-phase investigation: an extensive set of systematic reviews, and a multi-site, whole-of-school empirical study.
Phase one was a systematic review of over 2000 research studies to uncover ten key issues.
Phase two was a multi-site whole-of-school study interviewing Aboriginal students, their families, their communities, principals, and teachers at six schools in New South Wales, to provide a deeper understanding of how Aboriginal students make sense of their everyday experiences of schools and schooling.
The publications arising from this project are orientated towards bringing deeper and more nuanced discourses about whole-of-school and community understandings of the environments in which education is undertaken and the impact that these have had on shaping students and their family’s aspirations and expectations of schooling.
