Creating a climate in which students can flourish: A whole school intercultural approach

This article reports part of an ongoing process that is taking place at one high school. With the vision of an inclusive school in which all students could flourish, the school deliberately set out to develop a culture in which the students would feel welcome, connected and have a sense of belonging...

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Main Authors: Read, K., Aldridge, Jill, Ala'i, Kate, Fraser, Barry, Fozdar, F.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Whole Schooling Consortium 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44442
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description This article reports part of an ongoing process that is taking place at one high school. With the vision of an inclusive school in which all students could flourish, the school deliberately set out to develop a culture in which the students would feel welcome, connected and have a sense of belonging. This article focuses on, first, how the school, with a culturally-diverse student population, implemented a whole school intercultural approach aimed at improving students’ views of the school climate and, second, the impact that this had on students’ perceptions of the school climate and their self-reports of wellbeing, resilience and identity. These results indicated that, at the end of the 18 month period, students’ perceptions of the school climate were statistically significantly higher for four of the six school climate scales. Further, students’ scored statistically higher in terms of their wellbeing, resilience, self-anchoring and moral identity.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-444422017-01-30T15:14:10Z Creating a climate in which students can flourish: A whole school intercultural approach Read, K. Aldridge, Jill Ala'i, Kate Fraser, Barry Fozdar, F. This article reports part of an ongoing process that is taking place at one high school. With the vision of an inclusive school in which all students could flourish, the school deliberately set out to develop a culture in which the students would feel welcome, connected and have a sense of belonging. This article focuses on, first, how the school, with a culturally-diverse student population, implemented a whole school intercultural approach aimed at improving students’ views of the school climate and, second, the impact that this had on students’ perceptions of the school climate and their self-reports of wellbeing, resilience and identity. These results indicated that, at the end of the 18 month period, students’ perceptions of the school climate were statistically significantly higher for four of the six school climate scales. Further, students’ scored statistically higher in terms of their wellbeing, resilience, self-anchoring and moral identity. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44442 Whole Schooling Consortium fulltext
spellingShingle Read, K.
Aldridge, Jill
Ala'i, Kate
Fraser, Barry
Fozdar, F.
Creating a climate in which students can flourish: A whole school intercultural approach
title Creating a climate in which students can flourish: A whole school intercultural approach
title_full Creating a climate in which students can flourish: A whole school intercultural approach
title_fullStr Creating a climate in which students can flourish: A whole school intercultural approach
title_full_unstemmed Creating a climate in which students can flourish: A whole school intercultural approach
title_short Creating a climate in which students can flourish: A whole school intercultural approach
title_sort creating a climate in which students can flourish: a whole school intercultural approach
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44442