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Erin Hoare; Katy Thomas; Sandra Ofei-Ferri – Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2025
In 2023, Education Ministers asked that the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) include wellbeing on its 2024 Research Agenda. In 2024, AERO reviewed and expanded on 2 reports that collated evidence for various wellbeing strategies and interventions. These 2 reports (henceforth, the 'initial reports') were: (1) "High Impact…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Strategies, Well Being
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Grace Marie O'Brien; Francis Bobongie-Harris – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2023
First Nations languages can play a significant role in ensuring connection to land, culture, Songlines, kinship, history, and stories. Ongoing language attrition for First Nations peoples of Australia has been due to colonization and past adverse government policies, which rendered First Nations languages a threat to the expansion of the colony.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Colonialism, Inclusion
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Payne, Ameena L.; Stone, Cathy; Bennett, Rebecca – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2023
This conceptual article asserts the importance of building and sustaining trust between higher education students and practitioners within the online environment. Instilling trust can construct sustainable learning environments that are abundant with collaborative inquiry and dialogue. In this article, we highlight and investigate the conceptual…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), College Students, Electronic Learning, Educational Environment
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Heather Goodall; Heidi Norman; Belinda Russon – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2022
The voices of students about the early days of Indigenous-controlled adult education providers are hard to find. In historical research for Tranby Aboriginal Co-operative Ltd (Tranby) and the University of Technology Sydney, 17 former participants in Tranby courses, from 1980 to 2000, gave in-depth interviews, which were analysed alongside…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Adult Education
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Gray, Tonia, Ed.; Mitten, Denise, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
This Handbook serves as a starting point for critical analysis and discourse about the status of women in outdoor learning environments (OLEs). Women choose to participate actively in outdoors careers, many believing the profession is a level playing field and that it offers alternatives to traditional sporting activities. They enter outdoor…
Descriptors: Females, Outdoor Education, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
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Donovan, Michael J. – Australian Educational Researcher, 2015
Despite decades of policy and practice oriented at improving educational outcomes for Aboriginal students in Australia, achievements on most measures indicate that there is a long way to go in this endeavour. One avenue for improving Aboriginal education that has received little attention is accessing the views of Aboriginal students themselves…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Cultural Awareness, Culturally Relevant Education
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Dakich, Eva; Watt, Tony; Hooley, Neil – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2016
Researching the education of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australian schools is an exceedingly difficult and uncompromising task. Working respectfully with local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities must remain top priority with any research project regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewpoints of…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Pacific Islanders, Ethnic Groups, Democracy
Boylan, Colin, Ed.; Hemmings, Brian, Ed. – Online Submission, 2004
The 20th National Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA) and Western Australia District High School Administrators' Association (WADHSAA) joint conference proceedings, based on the theme "Working Together, Staying Vital," was held in Fremantle, Perth, Western Australia, in June 2004. The proceedings contain 13…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Theory Practice Relationship
Boylan, Colin, Ed. – Online Submission, 2006
The papers contained in this document represent the keynote addresses, refereed and non-refereed conference papers from the 22nd National Conference of Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA). The theme for this national conference was: Community Diversity and Innovation in Rural and Remote Education and Training. Keynote…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Foreign Countries, Innovation, Rural Education