Britton, Amelia, Redman-MacLaren, Michelle, Ham, Miriam, and Bainbridge, Roxanne (2020) What attributes make an alternate model of education for remote Indigenous adolescents: a systematic literature review. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 30 (3).

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Abstract

Education provides opportunities for adolescents to make developmental gains. Remote Indigenous adolescents not engaged in education programs need alternate learning opportunities to reach developmental goals. This review identifies attributes that contribute to an alternate model of education within the existing literature and reports on the quantity and nature of evidence. Thirty-seven databases and grey literature were canvassed using strict search criteria. Analysis of papers was conducted to find the enablers of alternate models by identifying the conditions, strategies and outcomes the intervention produced. Papers were categorised according to their nature by Canada’s Hierarchy of Evidence and the Sanson-Fisher model. There was limited literature on alternate models of education for Indigenous adolescents in settings outside a school environment. Three papers were classified as descriptive and ten as intervention research. All papers were described as “emerging” and “promising” practices. The five attributes embedded within a model included 1) cultural connectedness and awareness; 2) being contextually designed; 3) fosters relationships with peers and adults; 4) specific teaching and learning strategies and; 5) holistic outcomes. The findings will contribute to the co-design of an alternate model of education for remote Indigenous communities. Gaps identified in the literature included examples of “best practice” models and highlighted the need for further research of innovative models that move from descriptive research to form an evidence base.

Item ID:	66001
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1839-7387
Keywords:	Indigenous, adolescent, alternate model, learning, systematic review
Related URLs:	https://www.journal.spera.asn.au/index.p...
Date Deposited:	17 Feb 2021 00:29
FoR Codes:	45 INDIGENOUS STUDIES > 4504 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing > 450419 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social determinants of health @ 100%
SEO Codes:	21 INDIGENOUS > 2103 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health > 210301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander determinants of health @ 100%
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