School to university transitions for Australian children of refugee background : a complex journey

Loshini Naidoo; Jane Wilkinson; Misty Adoniou; Kip Langat

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-6476-0_6

School to university transitions for Australian children of refugee background : a complex journey

Loshini Naidoo, Jane Wilkinson, Misty Adoniou, Kip Langat

Western Sydney University

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This chapter examines findings from a recent large study of school-to-university transition which examined the barriers and challenges faced by refugee background students transitioning from Australian secondary schools to university. In particular, it focuses on the kinds of enabling practices and structures at school level, which supported this transition, drawing on vignettes to illustrate these pathways. It concludes that although there are examples of exemplary school practices to support transition to university, these pathways are not systemic and are too often dependent on the knowledge, excellent practice and good will of individual schools and teachers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Transitions to Post-school Life: Responsiveness to Individual, Social and Economic Needs
Editors	Margarita Pavlova, John Chikin Lee, Rupert Maclean
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer
Pages	81-103
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811064760
ISBN (Print)	9789811064746
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6476-0_6
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Australia
education, higher
refugee children
universities and colleges

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Transitions to Post-school Life: Responsiveness to Individual, Social and Economic Needs. ed. / Margarita Pavlova; John Chikin Lee; Rupert Maclean. Singapore: Springer, 2018. p. 81-103.

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