Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/52365
Title: Building A New Generation: Community Expectations On Raising Aspirations In Rural Tasmania
Contributor(s): Corbett, Michael (author); Fraser, Sharon (author); Reaburn, Robyn (author); Smith, Heidi (author); Roberts, Janine (author); Fielding-Wells, Jill  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2017-12-09
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/52365
Abstract: 

This paper analyses a community-based educational program involving private and public sector partners instituted in a small city in northern Tasmania. The program represents part of a state-wide initiative to challenge the persistence of structural educational disadvantage and what is understood to be an entrenched ''culture'' that is insufficiently attuned to the necessity of further education. In this paper, we analyse this program from the perspective of key community partners drawing on a series of semi-structured interviews. We offer an analytic framework that suggests an integrated approach to thinking about supporting educational achievement, attainment and retention in regional Australia. It is our view while there is much that regional communities struggling with change can learn from this program, there are conceptual limitations in the way the problem of educational achievement is understood that should be enhanced by a more comprehensive understanding.

Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 27(3), p. 8-24
Publisher: Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA)
Place of Publication: Australia
ISSN: 1839-7387
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 390203 Sociology of education
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 160201 Equity and access to education
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Publisher/associated links: https://journal.spera.asn.au/index.php/AIJRE/article/view/139
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School of Education

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