Integrated Systems Approaches: Creative applications for working with disengaged youth

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Gatfield, Emma
Winter-Simat, Nikolas
Griffith University Author(s)
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2019
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This article proposes a salient model of practice, Integrated Systems Approaches (ISA), which emerges from secondary education work with disengaged male youths, and has utility across similar settings. The site hosts students with a range of challenges to engagement, focussing on relationship development, personal accountability, self-reflection and broad education that engages students through transformative learning experiences. Using ISA, practitioners support students’ resilience through: revitalising family connections, fostering positive peer associations, and capitalising on staff guidance; concurrently, connecting ...
View more >This article proposes a salient model of practice, Integrated Systems Approaches (ISA), which emerges from secondary education work with disengaged male youths, and has utility across similar settings. The site hosts students with a range of challenges to engagement, focussing on relationship development, personal accountability, self-reflection and broad education that engages students through transformative learning experiences. Using ISA, practitioners support students’ resilience through: revitalising family connections, fostering positive peer associations, and capitalising on staff guidance; concurrently, connecting students with relevant support services, and generating constructive industry-placement mentoring. Through design-led transformative learning experiences students engage in critical reflection and experimentation. While this model has not undergone statistical analysis to determine efficacy, this article outlines the structure, logic and processes of ISA.
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View more >This article proposes a salient model of practice, Integrated Systems Approaches (ISA), which emerges from secondary education work with disengaged male youths, and has utility across similar settings. The site hosts students with a range of challenges to engagement, focussing on relationship development, personal accountability, self-reflection and broad education that engages students through transformative learning experiences. Using ISA, practitioners support students’ resilience through: revitalising family connections, fostering positive peer associations, and capitalising on staff guidance; concurrently, connecting students with relevant support services, and generating constructive industry-placement mentoring. Through design-led transformative learning experiences students engage in critical reflection and experimentation. While this model has not undergone statistical analysis to determine efficacy, this article outlines the structure, logic and processes of ISA.
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Journal Title
Journal of Social Inclusion
Volume
10
Issue
2
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© The Author(s) 2019. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Subject
Social work
Sociology
Social Sciences
Social Issues
disengaged youth
secondary education
transformative learning