Connecting to school: Exploring student and staff understandings of connectedness to school and the factors associated with this process

A Gowing, AC Jackson - The Educational and Developmental …, 2016 - cambridge.org
'School connectedness' is one of a number of terms used to describe a young person's
relationship to school. With school being a compulsory feature of most young people's lives …

The centrality of connectedness: A conceptual synthesis of attending, belonging, engaging and flowing

T Bowles, J Scull - Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Over the past decade, researchers have called for a reconceptualisation of school
connectedness. A review of literature between 1990 and 2016 was completed to define …

How important are school and interpersonal student characteristics in determining later adolescent school connectedness, by school sector?

SK Waters, D Cross, T Shaw - Australian Journal of …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
The extent to which students feel connected to their school is a powerful predictor of many
health, social and academic outcomes. These outcomes are also influenced by other factors …

Teachers' perceptions of school connectedness and risk-taking in adolescence

RL Chapman, L Buckley, M Sheehan… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
School connectedness has been shown to be an important protective factor in adolescent
development, which is associated with reduced risk-taking behavior. Interventions to …

School belonging and the role of social and emotional competencies in fostering an adolescent's sense of connectedness to their school

K Allen, D Vella-Brodrick, L Waters - … learning in Australia and the Asia …, 2017 - Springer
The literature on school belonging is not well advanced in Australia and is complicated by a
disparity in terminology (eg, school belonging has been referred to as school …

The conceptualisation of school and teacher connectedness in adolescent research: a scoping review of literature

I García-Moya, F Bunn, A Jiménez-Iglesias… - Educational …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this scoping review was to map and summarise research relating to school and
teacher connectedness, in order to increase current understanding of the ways these terms …

Does the nature of schools matter? An exploration of selected school ecology factors on adolescent perceptions of school connectedness

S Waters, D Cross, T Shaw - British Journal of Educational …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Background Connectedness to school is a significant predictor of adolescent health and
academic outcomes. While individual predictors of connectedness have been well …

Youth perceptions of life at school: Contextual correlates of school connectedness in adolescence

JL Whitlock - Applied Developmental Science, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
A growing body of research shows school connectedness to be a powerful predictor of
adolescent health and academic outcomes. This study advances a theoretically grounded …

[PDF][PDF] School connectedness: Exploring the concept in Zimbabwean schools

J Mapfumo, P Muchena - Academic Research International, 2013 - savap.org.pk
This study on 'school connectedness' arose from the motivation of the authors to establish
the extent to which students in high schools in Zimbabwe perceived as the source and of …

[PDF][PDF] Measuring students' sense of connectedness with school

C Brew, B Beatty, A Watt - Australian Association for Research in …, 2004 - rpforschools.net
The current emphasis on performance outcomes in schools has threatened to eclipse the
importance of social connectedness as an antecedent to student success. Presented is an …