Getting schools ready for Indigenous academic achievement: a meta-synthesis of the issues and challenges in Australian schools

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Anderson, Peter J
Yip, Sun Yee
Diamond, Zane M
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2023
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The Australian governments’ centrepiece Indigenous strategy, the ‘Closing the Gap’ framework, established in 2008 to address systemic Indigenous disadvantage, is underpinned by the concept of ‘school readiness’, which expects Indigenous families to bring their children to school ready to learn. The education system commonly blames Indigenous culture as a contributing factor in explaining the ‘Gap’. In this paper, we reverse the mirror of ‘school readiness’, examining what is known about the readiness of the education system to meet the aspirations of Indigenous learners. Using a meta-synthesis methodological approach, this paper provides an overview of research about the issues and challenges facing Australian schools to be ready to respond to the educational needs of Indigenous children. Findings reveal that the lack of teacher, curriculum, pedagogical, school environment and culture readiness are the four key aspects to consider. We conclude by discussing the implications and gaps in the existing Indigenous education strategies.

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International Studies in Sociology of Education

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32

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4

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© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.

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Anderson, PJ; Yip, SY; Diamond, ZM, Getting schools ready for Indigenous academic achievement: a meta-synthesis of the issues and challenges in Australian schools, International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2023, 32 (4), pp. 1152-1175

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