Boarding Schools and Capital Benefits: Implications for Urban School Reform

Bass, Lisa

doi:10.1080/00220671.2012.753855

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“…In contrast, contemporary Australian discourse of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander boarding schools thus far is largely in report or media form, considering the practical imperatives of boarding without any acknowledgement of the underpinning philosophical or sociological assumptions that are driving its need. Bass (2014) provides a recent scholarly and theoretical analysis of the underlying objectives of boarding schools for disadvantaged or lower socioeconomic status groups in America by exploring boarding schools through Bourdieu's models of capital (education capital, social capital, and cultural capital). Australian media reporting has reflected such discourses, of the social and (mainstream) cultural capital that remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students purportedly gain, and for whom this education is only available through attendance at metropolitan boarding schools.…”

Section: Boarding Schools: From Past To Presentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of the Residence: Exploring the Goals of an Aboriginal Residential Program in Contributing to the Education and Development of Remote Students

Benveniste

Dawson

Rainbird

2015

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Recent media and policy focus in remote Aboriginal education has turned to boarding schools. The general rhetoric is that boarding schools will allow Indigenous Australian students to have access to quality education and to learn to ‘walk in two worlds’. However, to date, there has been very little exploration of the lived experiences of Indigenous boarding schools, either from broader political and sociological perspectives, or from the schools themselves. Furthermore, understanding of how the residential side of boarding constructs the use of time and presents educational and social development opportunities is lacking. This paper aims to begin to address this, by presenting the goals and intended outcomes of a residential program for remote central Australian Aboriginal students. Through analysis of 17 semistructured interviews with residence staff, this paper identifies the two overarching goals of the program, as well as the more specific learning outcomes from which the program expects its students to benefit. The research presented is preliminary data that forms part of a broader PhD study of postboarding school expectations and outcomes for remote Aboriginal students, their families, and their communities.

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Section: Boarding Schools: From Past To Presentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of the Residence: Exploring the Goals of an Aboriginal Residential Program in Contributing to the Education and Development of Remote Students

Benveniste

Dawson

Rainbird

2015

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Section: Boarding Schoolsmentioning

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“…Bass (2013) asserts that boarding schools have the potential to aid disenfranchised students because of their increased exposure to capital benefits. Boarding schools can provide structure, study time, and homework help (Bass 2013). Furthermore, research has found that academic engagement, school climate, and out of school time activities were key contributors to the academic achievement of Black and Latino boys (Martin et al 2010).…”

Section: Boarding Schoolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, if the positive and negative aspects of placing a student in a boarding school balance out then the effects of boarding school will be negligible. Bass (2013) found that the boarding school environment promoted social, cultural, and educational capital for students from high poverty backgrounds. Small class size allowed students to become more comfortable communicating with teachers and they even learned to see adults as friends.…”

Section: Boarding Schoolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is particularly important because positive relationships with teachers and peers have been found to support academic achievement (Martin et al 2010;Toldson 2008). Furthermore, students had increased social capital because of the wide variety of activities they were required to participate in (Bass 2013).…”

Section: Boarding Schoolsmentioning

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Pedagogical devices as children’s social care levers: A study of social care workers’ attitudes towards boarding schools to care for and educate children in need

Murphy

Oliver

Pourhabib

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It has been proposed that boarding schools in England can be used to provide a stable education and care environment for vulnerable children in need, and the government is expanding their use. However, for vulnerable children to be placed in boarding schools, social workers will need to be willing to contemplate boarding as a viable care option. In this study we interviewed N = 21 social care practitioners including directors, senior and middle managers, frontline social workers, social worker-academics and family support workers who work with vulnerable children. Using thematic analysis of the transcribed interviews, seven major themes identified a range of issues and concerns held by social care workers about placing vulnerable children in boarding schools. We present these themes and consider the issues that will have to be addressed prior to changes in policy and practice. The study concludes that many of those within the social work profession are unlikely to consider boarding as an intervention for children in need. Further research in this area is a matter of urgency.

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Boarding Schools and Capital Benefits: Implications for Urban School Reform

Cited by 29 publications

References 25 publications

The Role of the Residence: Exploring the Goals of an Aboriginal Residential Program in Contributing to the Education and Development of Remote Students

The Role of the Residence: Exploring the Goals of an Aboriginal Residential Program in Contributing to the Education and Development of Remote Students

This is a black-white conversation : navigating race, class, and gender at an urban school.

Pedagogical devices as children’s social care levers: A study of social care workers’ attitudes towards boarding schools to care for and educate children in need

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