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Title: Junior Secondary Students' Perceptions of Influences on Their Engagement with Schooling (Report)
Author : Australian Journal of Education
Release Date : January 01, 2009
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 236 KB

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Introduction There have been sustained attempts over the last decade to explain and to tackle student disengagement in the middle years of schooling (students aged 10 to 14) in Australia. This disengagement has been variously attributed to irrelevant, unchallenging curricula, inappropriate student tasks, ineffectual learning and teaching processes, and changed cultural and technological conditions (see Luke et al., 2003). Other highlighted factors include a combination of students' familial economic resources and cultural capital, and their own sense of what they can achieve (Onyx et al., 2005; Taylor & Nelms, 2008).