"Making up for lost time : young African refugees in Western Sydney high schools" by Elizabeth Cassity

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Making up for lost time : young African refugees in Western Sydney high schools

(2006)

Elizabeth Cassity, University of Western Sydney

Abstract

This report describes how refugee young people from African countries are negotiating new learning challenges in three Western Sydney high schools. Intensive English Centres (IECs) were attached to two of the schools. The research highlighted varying experiences across the three schools but overall it found the schooling system is not working well for newly-arrived African students. [Extract from executive summary]

Keywords

African students,
Children,
Community attitudes,
Equal education,
High schools,
Parent attitudes,
Pathways,
Refugees,
Student attitudes,
Student experience,
Students,
Teacher attitudes

Disciplines

Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

Publication Date

2006

Citation Information

Elizabeth Cassity. "Making up for lost time : young African refugees in Western Sydney high schools" (2006)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth-cassity/17/