Building a Sense of Community Belonging: Making Mobile Families Welcome in a Rural Australian School

Autor/in	Henderson, Robyn
Titel	Building a Sense of Community Belonging: Making Mobile Families Welcome in a Rural Australian School
Quelle	In: Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 27 (2017) 2, S.18-30 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Henderson, Robyn)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1839-7387
Schlagwörter	Sense of Community; Agricultural Laborers; Migrants; Foreign Countries; Agricultural Production; Disadvantaged; Rural Areas; Case Studies; Elementary School Students; Elementary School Teachers; Migrant Children; Family Needs; School Community Relationship; School Role; Literacy Education; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Agricultural labourers; Landarbeiter; Migrantin; Ausland; Agriculture; Production; Landwirtschaft; Produktion; Agrarproduktion; Landwirtschaftliche Produktion; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Australien
Abstract	Seasonal farm workers play an important economic role through their contributions to annual harvests and the fact that they spend income in the community where they sojourn. However, research shows that farm workers and other temporary residents are often socially marginalised in rural communities and feel as though they are outsiders who do not belong. This paper reports research that focused on a primary school in a rural community in Australia, where seasonal mobile farm workers arrived for the annual harvest. Using a single case study design, the research demonstrated that the school made a deliberate attempt to welcome newly-arrived students and their families into the school community. Using a whole school strategy, the school staff aimed to meet families' and students' social needs, thereby building a sound foundation for the academic work of schooling. However, the data and data analysis also suggested that the school's strategy was helping to work against the deficit discourses that operated in the broader community, thus demonstrating the school's role as a hub for the community's socio-educational development. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia. P.O. Box 659, Wembly, Western Australia 6913. Tel: +08-9285-0626; e-mail: admin@spera.asn.au; Web site: http://www.spera.asn.au/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01