Engaging disengagement

Disengaged students



If the data is consistent 10% of youths between the age of 16 to 18 are not engaged in education, employment, or training (a stitch in time: tackling educational disengagement). The ongoing cost for people who have disengaged will grow ever-increasing as society relies less on unskilled labor.


Technological change, greater labor market flexibility, and economic reforms are transforming the workplace. In Australia the labor growth sections are;

  • Health Care and Social Assistance
  • Professional, Scientiļ¬c and Technical Services
  • Education and Training
  • Mining 
  • Construction 
The jobs in decline are;
  • Manufacturing 
  • Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
The Future Of All Work, And Not Just For Creatives - trends in USA: 

 “With the avalanche of new products, new technologies, and new ways of working, workers are going to have to become more creative in order to benefit from these changes.”



The disengaged ex-students have a decreasing employment prospect.
Has education failed these students? 
Whether the answer is yes or no there needs to be a stronger focus on trying to reducing disengaged students.


What are the indicators?
  • a poor attitude towards learning and enjoyment of learning
  • a long tail of underachievement
  • social background & attainment -> deprived backgrounds with good prior attainment
  • persistent truancy from secondary school
  • schools that suffers from poor behaviour and image
  • children from deprived backgrounds
  • children with special needs
  • children in local authority care
  • children with ESL needs

The problem
Whilst the problem of disengagement and the immediate effect of the disengagement is evident in older student groups it is the younger groups that require significant attention. Students are switching off from education at an early stage.


Two questions

  • How can educators identify and risk manage behavioral disengagement, emotional engagement & cognitive engagement in the early stages of schooling?
  • If engagement is closely linked to inclusion and if the indicators (above) refer to exclusion how can schools provide a service for the excluded?
Inclusion programs are required however the programs required need to be a differentiated service.  
  • Inclusion programs within sport, recreation, cultural and participatory activities.
  • Identification programs to provide service support for low-level truancy, health issues, police, pregnancy, drug consumption, and family conflict.
  • Interventionist programs that support students through high-level truancy, sexual violence, mental health, not residing at home, and family breakdown.
Possible solutions
Inclusion programs will not work if education is primarily focussed on classroom activities. Schools need to enable adaptive learning solutions. 
  • Formal recognition of activities outside of school
  • Informal eLearning essential learning packages (Games based)
  • Formal distance education eLearning solutions (course-based)
  • Flipping the classroom - on-line content - supporting classroom-based activities
  • Mobile learning solutions via social networking platforms
  • Flexible approaches to engagement 
  • Partnership programs operated by community service organizations
  • Alternative education programs such as the notSchool
  • Schools provide relevant programs of learning
  • Teachers provide inclusive instruction













You Tube

Comments

Post a Comment

Check out these posts

Digital Literacy Tools

Image
This is a list of on-line tools that can be used in education. It is an extensive list with many ways of application. The list is not complete. Bookmarking Tools Clip Clip www.clipclip.com -> ClipClip is, essentially, a social bookmarking tool that allows you to save and collect the sites and stuff you treasure most. you can ‘clip’ pictures, applications, and paragraphs without having to take from the whole website itself. ClipClip works, more or less, as your own personal scrapbook. Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us -> Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community - Bookmark any site on the Internet, and get to it from anywhere Share your bookmarks, and get bookmarks in return Discover the most useful and interesting bookmarks on the web Diigo www.diigo.com -> Diigo provides a browser add-on that can really improve your research producti
Read more

Jingili Water Gardens The Fall

Image
  From behind this veil I can see everything and everyone You only see me as a shadow  I sometimes get lost in the camouflage You try to remain civil and courteous Inside, I have no need Outside, you have no idea Here I am on my crafted net In my domain Waiting for you to enter To select the choice Convinced  As unconstrained And Free It is not sufficient. To ransom our future on exponential growth. A future of class division. Where the unprofitable is marginalized. One-off sponsorship You Tube
Read more

Are you on the bus

Image
  Are you on the bus? What is your destination? Will you cross the road? What is behind the machine? The privilege of possessing a curious mind and an urge to make sense. When Flinders circumnavigated New Holland. He took Trim. Suitable for service. Faithful and affectionate. So it became. Forging ahead and getting around restrictions. Breaking national protections. Cutting the red tape. To this day Encroachments are made to preserve Australia's prosperity. And maximizing returns, by reorganizing structures. To maintain productivity and continuous growth. Video Remembering what the imperial powers set in place. Civilization, Christianity, and Commerce. The essential values to justify achievement and superiority. To inflict an ideological belief of inferiority. And to punish cultures into subservience and dependency. Masters and soldier ants. Each time we try to free ourselves.  Sovereign power adjusts its grid of discipline. A correction to form a new normal. A nation of docile s
Read more

Simulacrum Bark Hut Batwoman

Image
  Bark Hut Batwoman Simulacrum Northern Territory Gothic Shadows Poem Video Bark Hut Inn Bat Woman Arrives Brutally dispossessed. Placed onto a reserve. And promised rations. Detering the minority from becoming the majority. All stand-down when aesthetics enters the room. Imagined realities. Perspective from the darkness. Obsessions, failure, and virtue. Anxieties, fear, and panic. How did we know the world? Our ghosts of opportunity and precious wealth. Our unspeakable and inexpressible horror. To evoke and convey our superior taste. One-off sponsorship You Tube
Read more

Fountain

Image
  When.  Constructing a public identity. Making coherence. Being rational. Displaying self-regulation. There are four selves. Whilst. On the front stage. Broadcasting. Under Constant Surveillance. Privacy becomes a threat. Outsiders are no longer welcome. In Fragmentation. Instability. Multiple realities. The burning of bridges. Work-life is paramount. One-off sponsorship You Tube
Read more

Darwin Sidewalk

Image
  Listen for the faint sounds of weeping. To reestablish your direction. The path you are on. Your dreams and visions. The need to feel above. Above the underworld. Fighting each weakness to fail. Each diversion that beckons. Seeking the shortcomings of each perfection. The same street. Is no longer recognizable. It is time to search. For a catalyst.  For an ornament.  For a precious memory. Sacredness and control. Through self-reflection. And thinking about thinking. Too hectic to wade through the complications. The science, values, and imperatives. The social categories in disagreement. We are polarised. By our relationship to reality. By our bond to our peers.  By conflicts that form identity. The kind of person you are. Who you share your values with. Who you are trusted by. Who understands you. Small conversations. That involves acceptable lies.  To get on each other's side. Trying to imagine where we can agree. By avoiding disagreements. And points of view. By skipping over w
Read more

Ideas of Lux

Image
  By its very nature unpredictable Intentionally distorted to make sense Lost in the experience of being sublime When the sky rests down User Paid For Lies and Deceit Fully Automated Luxurious Capitalism Turbocharged Capitalism and Galactic Tourism By its very nature unpredictable. Intentionally distorted to make sense. Lost in the experience of being sublime. Each evening, when the sky rests down. Our users paid for our lies and deceit. A Promised Land. Of fully automated luxurious capitalism. And our future. Turbocharged capitalism and galactic tourism. This is the Light of Lux One-off sponsorship You Tube
Read more