Surviving, Thriving and Reviving in Adolescence Research and Narrati
This research-based book focuses on the development and evolution of the School for Student Leadership (SSL), an alternate and unique residential school for year-nine students, operating in Victoria, Australia. It traces the journey of the SSL, a state se
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Surviving, Thriving and Reviving in Adolescence Research and Narratives from the School for Student Leadership
Surviving, Thriving and Reviving in Adolescence
Michael Dyson Margaret Plunkett •
Editors
Surviving, Thriving and Reviving in Adolescence Research and Narratives from the School for Student Leadership
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Editors Michael Dyson Federation University Australia Churchill, VIC Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-5731-1 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-5732-8
Margaret Plunkett Federation University Australia Churchill, VIC Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-5732-8
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Preface
This book presents, in a narrative style, a research journey conducted over 16 years in an Australian alternative secondary school. The purpose of this book is to reveal, in a series of inter-related chapters, the significant findings of this research and the important contribution that these findings make to education in both specific and broader terms. In 2000, the Alpine school, now known as the School for Student Leadership (SSL), was officially opened and the first cohort of students took up residence in Term 2, 2000. This first cohort participated in a shortened program of five weeks’ duration with students coming from the Gippsland and Western Metropolitan regions of the state of Victoria, which is in the southeast part of Australia. The principal of the then Alpine school, Mark Reeves, recognised in the early days of the school’s existence, the desirability and necessity of gathering empirical evidence into the perceived
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