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

Elizabeth Cassity

Research output: Other contribution

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]
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 2006

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

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