Engaging Indigenous parents in their children’s education
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AIHW
Daryl Higgins and Sam Morley (2014) Engaging Indigenous parents in their children’s education, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 20 April 2024.
APA
Daryl Higgins and Sam Morley. (2014). Engaging Indigenous parents in their children’s education. Canberra: AIHW.
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Daryl Higgins and Sam Morley. Engaging Indigenous parents in their children’s education. AIHW, 2014.
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Daryl Higgins and Sam Morley. Engaging Indigenous parents in their children’s education. Canberra: AIHW; 2014.
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Daryl Higgins and Sam Morley 2014, Engaging Indigenous parents in their children’s education, AIHW, Canberra.
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Engaging parents in their child's education improves the child's educational attainment and ongoing engagement in school. However, a family's socioeconomic position affects how they engage with their child's school, and the values fostered by schools are not always consistent with the values that are important to Indigenous families. This resource sheet identifies the key factors behind successful school engagement programs for Indigenous parents in Australia. It reviews evaluation studies on parental educational engagement in Australia and presents case studies on several programs that directly or indirectly support Indigenous parental involvement, including: Indigenous Parent Factor (IPF), The Home Interaction Program for Parents and Youngsters (HIPPY) program, The Aboriginal Parental Engagement Program, the Irrkerlantye Unit at Bradshaw Primary School, Manyallaluk Homeland School, Motor Magic, and Families and Schools Together (FAST).
- ISSN: 2201-845X
- ISBN: 978-1-74249-593-4
- Cat. no: IHW 130
- Pages: 21
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Engaging parents is likely to improve their children’s educational attainment and ongoing engagement in education
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Risk factors associated with poor parental engagement include poverty, poor parental education, unemployment
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Parental problems such as poor physical health, substance misuse or family violence also contribute to poor engagement
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Successful programs ensure the school is culturally welcoming for Indigenous parents and empower them