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Redman-MacLaren, Michelle; Benveniste, Tessa; McCalman, Janya; Rutherford, Katrina; Britton, Amelia; Langham, Erika; Stewart, Richard; Saunders, Pat; Kinchin, Irina; Bainbridge, Roxanne – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2021
More than 4000 Indigenous Australian students enrol and take up a placement at boarding school each year. While reasons for attending boarding school vary, the impetus for many remote and very remote-dwelling students is restricted secondary educational opportunities in their home communities. A large multi-site study is being undertaken across…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Reentry Students
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Van Gelderen, Ben – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2017
"Growing Our Own" is an innovative and unique program for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) in the remote Northern Territory. As a partnership between Catholic Education, Northern Territory (CENT) and Charles Darwin University (CDU), lecturers travel to remote Indigenous communities to deliver unit content to local 'Assistant Teachers'…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Indigenous Populations, Preservice Teacher Education, Geographic Isolation
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Sullivan, Peter; Jorgensen, Robyn; Boaler, Jo; Lerman, Steve – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2013
This article draws on the outcomes of a 4-year project where complex instruction was used as the basis for a reform in mathematics teaching in remote Aboriginal communities in Australia. The article describes the overall project in terms of the goals and aspirations for learning mathematics among remote Indigenous Australians. Knowing that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Educational Change, Rural Areas
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Twyford, Kylie; Crump, Stephen; Anderson, Alan – Rural Society, 2009
At the Western Institute of Technical and Further Education (WITAFE) in New South Wales (NSW), vocational education and training (VET) courses are being delivered to students in isolated homesteads and remote Aboriginal communities by Interactive Distance eLearning (IDL). IDL provides satellite-supported two-way broadband voice, one-way video and…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Distance Education, Adult Education, Adult Students
Loney, Paul – 1994
This paper describes two programs that work together to meet the educational needs of at-risk secondary students in small rural schools in Queensland, Australia. The goal of the Students At Risk program (STAR) is to increase retention rates of identified at-risk students. The Priority Country Areas Program (PCAP) assists schools and community…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Cooperative Programs, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries