"Here and Now": The Attendance Issue in Indigenous Early Childhood Education

Autor/in	Taylor, Anthea
Titel	"Here and Now": The Attendance Issue in Indigenous Early Childhood Education
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 25 (2010) 5, S.677-699 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
Schlagwörter	Early Childhood Education; Attendance; Ethnography; Social Isolation; Indigenous Populations; Attendance Patterns; Outreach Programs; Profiles; Case Studies; Naturalistic Observation; Educational Policy; Academic Persistence; Educational Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Anwesenheit; Ethnografie; Soziale Isolation; Sinti und Roma; Jobcoaching; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Naturbeobachtung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	Concern about poor school attendance and participation, particularly of Indigenous children, is a key issue in Australian education; however, strategies to address this issue have been piecemeal and have met with limited success. While much has been written about the issue of school attendance, little attention has been given to absenteeism in early childhood education or its effects at this level. Drawing on data from a longitudinal ethnographic study of Indigenous children in early childhood education in an Australian city, this paper examines the impact of intermittent attendance on the academic, social and personal wellbeing of young Aboriginal children. Explanations for non-attendance, particularly in the non-compulsory pre-school, are considered, and the efficacy of current policy trends to coerce parents to deliver children to school by withholding welfare income is challenged. It is argued that because absenteeism in the Indigenous context is part of the broader complex of social exclusion and disadvantage, policy-makers and service providers, such as the school, are presented particular challenges involving the balancing of competing principles. (Contains 12 notes and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10