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Research suggests schools need to be empowered to listen to students who are disengaging with school and respond in flexible ways.
Today Australia’s education ministers are meeting and school attendance is high on the agenda. Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has repeatedly flagged this as one of his key concerns.
There is growing concern about school refusal rates in Australia. But experts caution against parents simply forcing kids back to the classroom.
Many kids are nervous about starting a new school year. But some children will experience a level of anxiety about school that causes them significant problems.
A third of students say they don’t like school, and that dislike often begins around the time they enter high school. But the reasons they give point the way to solutions to this problem.
Many Australian children are returning to school after spending the best part of two years learning from home. Such a long break can understandably make many anxious. But there are ways to help.
School refusal is a serious difficulty for many students, but it is often ignored in policies for increasing school attendance.
Prime minister Tony Abbott has set a new goal of closing the gap for Indigenous school attendance within five years, saying a failure to properly educate children is “one of the worst forms of neglect…
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Researcher into Educational Leadership and Policy, Flinders University
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Research associate, Flinders University
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Fulbright Scholar and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Inclusive Education, University of New England
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Head of School of Education and Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Lecturer, Inclusive Education and Psychology, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Education, Wellbeing and Children's Rights, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, School of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Education, Monash University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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PhD Candidate, School of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Monash University
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Inclusion and Educational Psychology, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer in Education, CQUniversity Australia
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Sue Roffey is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
