ERIC Number: EJ1439292
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Oct
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1056-7879
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Using Action Research and Logic Modeling to Promote Young People's Engagement, Resilience and Wellbeing in Middle Schooling
Scott Phillips; Seth Brown; Peter Kelly
International Journal of Educational Reform, v33 n4 p449-463 2024
An approach to action research of innovative and disruptive socioecological understandings of young people's wellbeing, resilience, and engagement in middle school was piloted with a coalition of school principals, lead teachers, police, and community development professionals by an RMIT research team. This coalition was built around the Hume-Whittlesea Local Learning and Employment Network and the Whittlesea Youth Commitment Committee in outer northern Melbourne, Australia. Action research facilitated the collaborative design of interventions for reducing middle school disengagement. These were then expressed in logic model terms to guide implementation and subsequent evaluation. Logic models clarified how local innovations, situated in an authorizing environment, can develop promising practices that contribute to system reform. Our project involved characterizing ecologies of young people's engagement, resilience, and wellbeing as part of a place-based strategy.
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Resilience (Psychology), Well Being, Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Attendance, Partnerships in Education, Barriers, Mental Health, Educational Environment, Family Environment, Disadvantaged, Workshops, Cooperation, Student Empowerment, Family Involvement, Stakeholders
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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