- Title
- Re-conceptualizing ability grouping within a social justice framework : A student perspective
- Creator
- Plunkett, Margaret
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/53501
- Identifier
- vital:6336
- Identifier
- ISSN:1323-9686
- Abstract
- Ability grouping has continued to attract considerable negative press due to a perceived lack of fit within a socially just educational framework. Yet the student perspective on this issue has been notably absent from much of the research. This study investigated the views of Year 12 students reflecting on their educational experience at a disadvantaged rural secondary college, where for the first 3 years they were grouped in two different settings: ability based and mainstream. As year 7s these students had participated in an initial study examining differences in perceptions relating to the academic and social aspects of their first year of secondary education. This research represents part of a longitudinal follow-up study aimed at determining whether the different settings impacted over time on student perceptions of their experience. Initial findings suggested that both student groups viewed their educational experience as both appropriate and positive and that neither considered themselves disadvantaged, a perception that was supported by the longitudinal data. Therefore the question could be posed: if students perceive their educational experience as appropriate, within a framework of awareness of the possible alternatives, could this be considered socially just, and concomitantly, could ability grouping then be re-conceptualised as having a place within a socially just educational framework?
- Relation
- Australasian Journal of Gifted Education Vol. 18, no. 2 (2009), p. 5-16
- Rights
- Copyright Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1303 Specialist Studies In Education
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