- Title
- The participation of Australian Indigenous students in higher education: a scoping review of empirical research, 2000-2016
- Creator
- Gore, Jennifer; Patfield, Sally; Fray, Leanne; Holmes, Kathryn; Gruppetta, Maree; Lloyd, Adam; Smith, Maxwell; Heath, Treesa
- Relation
- The Australian Educational Researcher (AER) Vol. 44, Issue 3, p. 323-355
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-017-0236-9
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- While access to higher education has increased for Indigenous Australians, participation and completion rates remain lower than those of non-Indigenous Australians. A sound evidence base is needed to ground equity initiatives if they are to address the specific needs of Indigenous students. This paper presents the results of a scoping review of empirical research focusing on the participation of Indigenous students in higher education. The purpose of the scoping review was to synthesise empirical research on aspirations for, and barriers and enablers to, higher education that were published between 2000 and 2016 (n = 57), and identify areas where further research is needed. Despite a recent increase in research on this topic, relatively little attention has been paid to Indigenous students' aspirations while they are at school. We argue that future research should take account of school students' aspirations for higher education, including primary school students; the similitude of barriers and enablers across the student life cycle; differences within Indigenous community and among Indigenous students; and, the insights emerging from Indigenous methodologies and scholarship.
- Subject
- aspirations; higher education; indigenous students
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1349241
- Identifier
- uon:30374
- Identifier
- ISSN:0311-6999
- Rights
- This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
- Language
- eng
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