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students to the college. Aboriginal students were not separated
out as a group_j but could be identified as Aborigines from enrolment
lists because of the fact that they were funded under the Aboriginal
Secondary Grants Scheme,
a

Students were ’chosen’, by the director, to be part of the
research project. .Some students ’chosen’ in this way seemed
unaware of the Aboriginal origins of some of the others in the
group. A number of students had no Aboriginal physical
characteristics - several had (natural) blonde hair and fair
skin.

Though the age group of these students was also post-
secondary, as in the case of S.A.I.T. students, for most their
orientation was quite different. They formed part of a group
of students, many of whom could have ’passed’ into the white
world, and indeed some of whom had ’passed’.

They thus presented a group, located in a ’world’ differing

from that of the institutions already described.

19.7 Comparison of the ’worlds' of the institutions to be studied
*

A comparison of the different realities of the institutions

is set out in Table 5 (see following page).

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