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Kellie Burns; Brooke Manning – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
Understandings of gender diversity have increasingly recognised the rights and experiences of children and young people (Meyer & Pullen SansfaƧon, 2014, Smith et al., 2014). A small, but significant body of work focusses on the schooling experiences of gender diverse children/young people. The critical role parents play in supporting gender…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex, Elementary Secondary Education, School Choice
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Anna Hogan; Naomi Barnes – Gender and Education, 2024
This paper focuses on school choice "within" the public school system in Queensland, Australia. While school choice has typically been framed as a logic of economic rationalism (for middle-class families), in this paper we use Ahmed's concept of the cultural politics of emotion to describe a more complex dimension of choice through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Mothers, Parent Responsibility
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Carly Lassig; Shiralee Poed; Glenys Mann; Beth Saggers; Suzanne Carrington; Sofia Mavropoulou – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
The United Nations has called upon Governments that are signatory to the "Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" (CRPD) to adopt practical but progressive systems to transfer resources from segregated settings/special schools into mainstream schools. What will this mean for Australia's special schools, particularly given…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Schools, Student Rights, Students with Disabilities
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Alison L. Hilton; Sian Chapman; Laura B. Perry – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
Australian schooling is characterised by high levels of choice and competition, and education policymaking promotes the dissemination of information to assist families to choose a school. The aim of this study is to examine whether current information sharing is adequate for informing school choice for young people seeking vocational education and…
Descriptors: School Choice, Web Sites, Content Analysis, Vocational Education
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Hayley Mitchelson; Kate Simpson; Dawn Adams – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
The majority of autistic students experience numerous difficulties at school, which may contribute to frequent moves between mainstream schools. Despite this, no studies have examined the reasons why autistic students are making non-essential mainstream school moves. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences which led parents to…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Parent Attitudes, Student Placement, School Choice
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Quentin Maire; Christina Ho – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
Asian migrant students are typically considered as educational paragons in the West. They have been shown to surpass other students in standard indicators of educational success. However, viewing this success with a purely ethnic framework is inadequate and essentialising. It conflates the experiences of various groups into a homogenised 'Asian'…
Descriptors: Asians, Ethnicity, Academic Achievement, Social Class