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Jessica Russ-Smith; Sue Green – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2023
The education of First Nations children and young people is very important and is associated with their wellbeing. There are current policies and programs that address First Nations children's and young people's mental wellbeing and school attendance. But there has been a decline in school attendance and an increase in mental illness, including…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Mental Disorders, Educational Policy
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Dallimore, Clare – International Journal of Training Research, 2018
This paper reports on an action research project focused on improving engagement with Afghan students studying in the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) across metropolitan Adelaide in Terms 3 and 4, 2016. The purposes of the research were to identify issues faced by the students, enable development of new programs, reflect on methodology and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Migrant Education, Educational Improvement
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Peralta, Louisa; Cinelli, Renata; Bennie, Andrew – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2018
Sport-based mentoring programs have been used across many contexts to engage young people in education. In this research, we explored the influence that an Aboriginal controlled organisation's youth mentoring program has on three remote Aboriginal communities in Northern Territory, Australia. We used a composite set of culturally sensitive methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Rural Areas, Mentors