Schools have the potential for significant impact on the lives of Australian students with a
refugee background. Many of these young people speak at least one language other than …

Many displaced young people enter secondary schools with limited mother tongue literacy
and low proficiency in the language of instruction, but little is known about how teachers …

In Sweden, tutoring in the mother tongue is a special support measure primarily intended for
newly arrived students to facilitate their transition into the Swedish school system. Tutoring is …

Rarely do refugee students entering Australian schools possess the multiple forms of social,
linguistic and cultural capital that are taken for granted in mainstream classrooms. While …

The Australian federal government recently set a challenging national aim: By 2020, 20% of
higher education enrolment at the undergraduate level will include students from low …

The national OLT funded project Supporting school-university pathways for refugee
students' access and participation in tertiary education is a cross-institutional study carried …

Purpose–This paper aims to reinforce the significance of visual ethnography as a tool for
mental health promotion. Design/methodology/approach–Visual ethnography has become …

Introduction: The primary concern of this study is to assist refugee youths in telling their
transition story through art in order to understand facilitators and barriers to successful …

This article examines the ways teachers plan lessons for English as an Additional Language
(EAL) students from refugee backgrounds in secondary school transition programs. Based …

Private tuition is a well-established feature of the Australian education system. It is estimated
to be a billion dollar a year industry. Furthermore, international research indicates that …