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Policy, Schools And The New Health Imperatives, Valerie Harwood, Jan Wright
Policy, Schools And The New Health Imperatives, Valerie Harwood, Jan Wright
Valerie Harwood
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'It Felt Like I Was A Black Dot On White Paper': Examining Young Former Refugees' Experience Of Entering Australian High Schools, Jonnell Uptin, Jan Wright, Valerie Harwood
'It Felt Like I Was A Black Dot On White Paper': Examining Young Former Refugees' Experience Of Entering Australian High Schools, Jonnell Uptin, Jan Wright, Valerie Harwood
Valerie Harwood
Schools are often the first point of contact for young refugees resettling in Australia and play a significant role in establishing meaningful connections to Australian society and a sense of belonging in Australia (Olliff in Settling in: How do refugee young people fair within Australia's settlement system? Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues, Melbourne. http://www. cmyi. net. au/ResearchandPolicy. Accessed 21 June 2010, 2007; Gifford et al. in: Good Starts for recently arrived youth with refugee backgrounds: Promoting wellbeing in the first three years of settlement in Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne: La Trobe Refugee Research Centre. http://www. latrobe. edu. au/larrc/documents-larrc/reports/report-good-starts. pdf. Accessed 4 …
Relationship – The Fourth “R” In Our Schools, Lee Wilkinson
Relationship – The Fourth “R” In Our Schools, Lee Wilkinson
Lee A Wilkinson, PhD
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The New Outsiders: Adhd And Disadvantage, Valerie Harwood
The New Outsiders: Adhd And Disadvantage, Valerie Harwood
Valerie Harwood
Recent research has pointed to the uneven distribution of diagnoses of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, with disproportionately high numbers in areas marked by poverty (Gifford Sawyer et al., 2004; Olfsen et al., 2003). This chapter examines this issue of ADHD and social and economic disadvantage. Drawing on research with youth professionals from some of the most disadvantaged communities in Australia, the chapter puts forward the case that the ADHD phenomenon has highly problematic effects on the lives of children and young people in these communities. The intent is to show how the ADHD phenomenon interacts with disadvantage, and suggest how …
The Impact Of Increasing Competition For University On Disadvantaged Government School Students, Daniel Edwards
The Impact Of Increasing Competition For University On Disadvantaged Government School Students, Daniel Edwards
Dr Daniel Edwards
The influence of socioeconomic status on academic outcomes has been well documented in literature exploring post school pathways. Such accounts of educational disadvantage exist in relation to Melbourne, Australia as they do in other cities across the developed world. However, over the past decade in Melbourne there has been an increased stratification of educational outcomes that cannot necessarily be explained by any parallel increase in social inequality. This differentiation of outcomes has been the result of growing competition for university places – stemming from growth in the school aged population and rising retention rates, but accompanied by no equivalent increase …