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Beth Marsden – History of Education, 2025
This paper examines media representations and surrounding discourse of holiday programmes developed for Aboriginal children in 1950s and 1960s Australia. Using a series of case studies and print media reports, this paper examines how white settler organisers and newspapers constructed narratives about holiday programmes as part of broader settler…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Indigenous Populations, Decision Making
Bradford, Dianne; King, Nicole – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2011
In 2007 the Calvary Refugee Mentoring Program (CRMP) was initiated at Calvary Hospital, Canberra, to provide an affirmative and individualised learning placement in workplaces for individuals with a refugee background. This work placement was designed to enhance the participants' knowledge of workplaces and to prepare them for future career and…
Descriptors: Mentors, Hospitals, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
Naidoo, Loshini – Issues in Educational Research, 2010
This paper discusses the community engagement program, "Refugee Action Support" (RAS) at the University of Western Sydney. RAS is a partnership program between the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation, The NSW Department of Education and Training and the university. The Refugee Action Support program prepares pre-service teachers…
Descriptors: Refugees, Community Programs, Community Involvement, Partnerships in Education
Rossetto, Marietta – International Education Journal, 2006
Place, as a metaphor, can be experienced in different ways, existing or created. If created, space can be Foucault's "placeless place", a utopia. A place that exists, however, can be a heterotopic space. A heterotopia is what we as individuals interpret it to be: it can be a space for reconstituting the self, rewriting the scripts of…
Descriptors: Immigration, Immigrants, Females, Self Concept
McConnochie, K. R.; Russell, A. – 1982
The report is the result of a 1981 research project commissioned by Australia's Commonwealth Department of Education to investigate early childhood education for Aborigines. The study encompassed the care and education of Aboriginal children from age 0 to age 5 in government and non-government school systems. The report is divided into three major…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Children, Compensatory Education, Day Care
Nicholls, Mary; Raleigh, Robyn – 1998
The resource guide was developed as a result of a project investigating the need for English language classes for older immigrants to Australia. Project objectives were to develop, deliver, evaluate, and document a pilot English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) program, benchmarking appropriate delivery options and curricula for older migrants.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Educational Needs

Cargill, Margaret – Higher Education Research and Development, 1996
A University of Adelaide (Australia) program to assist international graduate students in adjustment to Australian academic and discipline-related norms is described. The program focuses on language and academic skill development, and has been found to be effective. Factors in programs success, and their potential for wider application are…
Descriptors: Acculturation, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Foreign Students