- Title
- Choice theory, relationships and community
- Creator
- Dyson, Michael; Plunkett, Margaret
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/165088
- Identifier
- vital:13215
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5732-8_4
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-981-10-5731-1
- Abstract
- The themes of ‘relationships’, and ‘community’, amongst others, have been constantly framed and reframed in the research conducted at the three campuses of the School for Student Leadership (SSL), and in the SSL China project, over the past 16 years. The student participants involved in the various research projects continue to highlight these themes and others, revealing that something unique happens at the SSL. This chapter on the student perspective discusses the themes of relationships and community, in the context of an Indigenous cohort of students who attended the Alpine School, which is what the SSL was originally known as. They were a unique cohort, who attended for a 6-week shortened program in 2006. Through focus group discussions at the end of their stay, these students provided through their narratives, key insights into what the experience meant to them. It appears that while the focus of the SSL experience is different, much of what is covered is transferable into mainstream schooling, which means that schools both nationally and internationally have much to learn from the practices of the SSL. This is further evident in the next chapter (Chap. 5), which is also on the student perspective, particularly examining leadership and student engagement in relation to the SSL experience.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Relation
- Surviving, thriving and reviving in adolescence : Research and narratives from the school for student leadership Chapter 4 p. 43-67
- Rights
- Copyright © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Alternate educational setting; Adolescent relationships; Contemporary rite of passage; Personal growth; Student leadership; Social emotional development; Residential education; School for student leadership; Middle years education; Alternative education; Education in Australia
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