Junior Secondary Students' Perceptions of Influences on Their Engagement with Schooling
- 1 August 2009
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Australian Journal of Education
- Vol. 53 (2), 176-191
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000494410905300206
Abstract
Various explanations and solutions have been proposed over the last decade in relation to the implications of students' apparent lack of engagement with middle years schooling in Australia. This article reports on responses to a questionnaire by 333 Year 8 students (aged about 13, in the second year of high school) on perceptions of factors relating to their engagement with the academic curriculum. While the majority of students reported a strong sense of the importance of, and opportunities in, schooling, and saw English, mathematics and science connected to those opportunities, this orientation was not matched by corresponding positive engagement with these same subjects. There was diversity in the responses of students, and it is recommended that schools take steps to identify individual students' perceptions of factors influencing their engagement, and where appropriate, deal with those perceptions.Keywords
This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
- A Theoretical Review of Winne and Hadwin’s Model of Self-Regulated Learning: New Perspectives and DirectionsReview of Educational Research, 2007
- A framework for research into Australian middle school practiceThe Australian Educational Researcher, 2007
- Machinations in the middleThe Australian Educational Researcher, 2007
- How Far Have We Moved Toward the Integration of Theory and Practice in Self-Regulation?Educational Psychology Review, 2006
- Academic resilience and its psychological and educational correlates: A construct validity approachPsychology in the Schools, 2006
- School Engagement: Potential of the Concept, State of the EvidenceReview of Educational Research, 2004
- A possible selves intervention to enhance school involvementJournal of Adolescence, 2002
- Approach and avoidance motivation and achievement goalsEducational Psychologist, 1999
- Classrooms: Goals, structures, and student motivation.Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
- THE SILENCED DIALOG - POWER AND PEDAGOGY IN EDUCATING OTHER PEOPLES CHILDRENHarvard Educational Review, 1988