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Indigenous Community Partnerships across Country: Questioning What Counts
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Hunter, Erin Kristeen; Reid, Jo-Anne – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2020
A doctoral study of a program designed to provide access to secondary education for children from a remote Indigenous community was completed in 2014 (Hunter, 2015). This paper reflects on the ongoing commitment of members of this community to a partnership that uses interstate boarding schools as a means of educating their children. It reviews…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Boarding Schools
Increasing Urban Indigenous Students' Attendance: Mitigating the Influence of Poverty through Community Partnership
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Baxter, Lindy P.; Meyers, Noel M. – Australian Journal of Education, 2016
This research explores school attendance rates within the steadily growing population of Victorian urban Indigenous students and challenges for realising high attendance levels. Poverty, pervasive throughout the urban Indigenous community, presents circumstances where it once, and could still, erode regular school attendance. We report one…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Community Characteristics, School Community Relationship
Linking Flexible Delivery and Community Development: The Wugularr Story. Occasional Paper
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Anderson, Stuart – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
Building the research capacity of the vocational education and training (VET) sector is a key concern for the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). To assist with this objective, NCVER supports an academic scholarship program, whereby VET practitioners are sponsored to undertake university study at honours', master's or…
Descriptors: Health Services, Community Development, Scholarships, Vocational Education
Schools, Vocational Education and Training and Partnerships: Capacity-Building in Rural and Regional Communities
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Stokes, Helen; Stacey, Kathleen; Lake, Murray – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2006
Using case studies from seven rural and regional areas, this report looks at the impact of schools and vocational education and training (VET) on community capacity. It finds that communities have developed different models to organise school-VET partnerships and that rural areas are more likely to adopt a whole-of-community model, while regional…
Descriptors: Regional Schools, Rural Schools, Vocational Education, Case Studies
Corporate Managerialism in a Rural Setting: A Contextualised Case Study.
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Hatton, Elizabeth – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1996
Analysis of state-mandated strategic planning in a small, rural elementary school in northern New South Wales (Australia), reveals that although student outcomes were enhanced as a result of programs developed by staff, there were difficulties implementing corporate modes of management in a rural working-class community with deep racial, class,…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Educational Administration, Educational Change
Preparing Student Teachers for Professional Appointments in Rural Schools.
Haughey, Margaret; Murphy, Peter – 1983
Based on research and discussions with rural educators in Australia and New Zealand, a new rural teacher preparation program at the University of Victoria (British Columbia) is intended to sensitize students to the professional life of teachers in small rural communities and to acquaint them with the demands of teaching multi-graded classes. The…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Elementary Education, Faculty Mobility