McGinty, Sue (2018) Preface to 'Gauging the Value of Education for Disenfranchised Youth: flexible learning options'. In: McGinty, Sue, Wilson, Kimberley, Thomas, Joseph, and Lewthwite, Brian, (eds.) Gauging the Value of Education for Disenfranchised Youth: flexible learning options. Innovations and Controversies: interrogating educational change . Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, ix-xii.

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Abstract

Around 2010, when the Youth+ Flexible Learning Centres were at the height of being established across Australia, I had a conversation with Dale Murray, Director of Edmund Rice Education Australia—Youth+. Dale recounted that a lack of empirical evidence concerning the value of flexible learning options (FLOs) compromised his efforts to convince governments, city councils and private benefactors of the returns on their investments. Such evidence would need to be both qualitative and quantitative. Thus, the seed was sown for our Australian Research Council Linkage Project (LP130100344), “The value of Flexible Learning Options for disenfranchised young people and the Australian community”. This book is among the results of that endeavour.

Item ID:	51808
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Scholarly Work)
ISBN:	978-94-6351-240-4
Date Deposited:	19 Dec 2017 04:18
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