Retaining Vulnerable Students in CS Across School Transitions: The role of Cross-Sector Collaborations

Author(s):  
Emily Green ◽  
Jill Denner
Keyword(s):  
2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 396-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Donovan

In the Australian education system, there are substantial class inequalities in educational outcomes and transitions. These inequalities persist despite increased choice and individual opportunity for young people. This article explores high school students’ experiences of class in a social context they largely believe to be a meritocracy. Specifically, it asks: how does class shape young people’s thinking and decision-making about their post-school futures? I use Bourdieu’s ‘habitus’ as a frame to understand the role of class in young people’s lives, stressing its generative and heterogeneous aspects. Drawing on qualitative-led mixed methods research, this article argues that young people have internalised the ‘doxa’ of meritocracy, agency and ambition, conceiving of themselves as individual agents in this context. However, risk and security, opportunities and constraints, are not distributed equally in a class-stratified society. Young people from working-class backgrounds more commonly imagine insecure, uncertain futures.


2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 314-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanna Tomada ◽  
Barry H. Schneider ◽  
Piero de Domini ◽  
Paul S. Greenman ◽  
Ada Fonzi

Most school transitions are characterised by sweeping changes in children's social and learning environments, often accompanied by important biological and cognitive changes; the multiple changes occurring within the child and the environment make the results of school-transition studies difficult to interpret. Italian elementary school children experience a marked transition in teaching and evaluation style at the end of second grade, but do not change schools. Formal academic instruction begins and pupils' progress begins to be evaluated individually by means of oral examinations. The present longitudinal study focuses on the role of friends during this transition. The participants were pupils of 17 classes in 11 schools in the city of Florence, Italy, and surrounding towns. Self-reported liking of school decreased sharply after the transition. There were some indications that having friends contributed overall to successful adjustment after the transition, especially in terms of children's liking of school. There was also some evidence that friendship is an asset to children undergoing stressful life experiences. Both children's liking of school and their antisocial behaviours were predicted by their friends' attitudes toward school and their friends' antisocial behaviour.


2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie P. Goodwin ◽  
Sylvie Mrug ◽  
Casey Borch ◽  
Antonius H. N. Cillessen

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 751-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kris Tunac De Pedro ◽  
Ron Avi Astor ◽  
Tamika Gilreath ◽  
Rami Benbenishty ◽  
Ruth Berkowitz

In the Iraq and Afghanistan war context, studies have found that military-connected youth—youth with parents and/or siblings serving in the military—have higher rates of school victimization than their nonmilitary-connected peers. A positive school climate—where students perceive high levels of school connectedness, caring relationships and high expectations from adults, and meaningful participation—is associated with lower rates of victimization in secondary public schools. Based on a survey of 7th, 9th, and 11th grade students (N = 14,493) enrolled in 6 military-connected school districts (districts that have a significant proportion of military-connected students), this study explores victimization rates and the role of school climate, deployment, and school transitions in the victimization of military-connected students and their civilian peers. The findings indicate that deployment and school transitions were significant predictors of physical violence and nonphysical victimization. In addition, multiple school climate factors were significantly associated with physical violence and nonphysical victimization. The authors conclude with a discussion of future directions for research on school climate, victimization, and military-connected youth.


Author(s):  
Vicent Horcas López ◽  
Elena Giménez Urraco

Resumen:Este trabajo aborda el análisis de los discursos de los y las jóvenes en la toma de decisiones sobre sus itinerarios formativos y las transiciones escolares y entre escuela y trabajo. A partir de las entrevistas a jóvenes en dos proyectos de investigación, uno en itinerarios considerados como de “fracaso escolar y abandono prematuro” (educación obligatoria), y otro en itinerarios considerados de “éxito” (hacia la educación superior) pretendemos aproximarnos a los factores que influyen y dan sentido a las decisiones que toma el alumnado en sus diferentes posibilidades académicas. En este marco, la relación pedagógica se muestra como un elemento clave de vinculación con el centro escolar. Sin embargo, el papel del profesorado en la toma de decisiones no es por sí solo decisivo, sino que se combina con otros elementos contextuales y/o estructurales como la clase social, el capital cultural, el rendimiento educativo, el efecto barrio y la familia. Abstract:This paper analyze of the discourses of the young people in the decision making on their training pathways and the school transitions and school-to-work transitions. Based on interviews with young people in two research projects. The first training considered as “school failure and early school leaving” (compulsory education), and the second research considered training pathways of “success” (toward higher education) we intend to approach the factors that influence and give meaning to the decisions that the students take in their different academic possibilities. In this context, the pedagogical relationship is shown as a key element of linkage with the school. However, the role of teachers in decision-making is not alone decisive, but is combined with other contextual and structural elements such as social class, cultural capital, educational performance, neighborhood effect and family.


JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
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JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Van Metre

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