Challenge, community and a fair go

Wayne Sawyer

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    Abstract

    Education and a fair go. For over 15 years, the School of Education at the University of Western Sydney has run a research program about classroom engagement known as the Fair go program, which is concerned with equitable outcomes for students from low SES communities, and focuses on pedagogies that produce high level engagement. The program has gone through a number of iterations. Three examples of individual projects include: - Long-term partnerships between academics and teachers in classrooms (Fair Go Team, 2006);- co-researching with exemplary teachers of students from poor communities (Munns, Sawyer et al, 2013); - working on models of teacher-to-teacher mentoring around engaging pedagogies. This article addresses the second of these; an Australian Research Council Linkage project known as Teachers for a fair go.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)29-36
    Number of pages4
    JournalSCAN
    Volume34
    Issue number2
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

    Keywords

    • motivation in education
    • school improvement programs
    • teachers
    • students
    • socioeconomic status

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