Cultivating Capability: Explicating Critical Psychosocial Drivers of Educational Outcomes and Wellbeing for High-Ability Aboriginal Students

Research partner(s)

Western Sydney University

Australian Catholic University

University of Sydney

The project has conceptualised and validated a new multidimensional model and measure of wellbeing for Aboriginal high-ability students. It has also demonstrated that this model and measure is of salience to Aboriginal gifted primary and secondary students in Australia. It has also provided insights into: (1) high school transition, (2) new strategies for nurturing high-ability Aboriginal students who are underrepresented in selective settings, and (3) the effectiveness of NSW Department of Education distance education programs. The findings of this project provide advances in knowledge that will enhance future research, policy, and practice, to harness the talent of Aboriginal high-ability students.

Output(s)

The Multidimensional Student Well-being (MSW) instrument: Conceptualisation, measurement, and differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous primary and secondary students

Type

Journal article

Authors

Craven RG, Marsh HW, Yeung AS, Vasconcellos D, Dillon A, Ryan RM, Mooney J, Franklin A, Barclay L, Van Westenbrugge A.

Publisher

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Publication date

2024

Rights notice

File

1-s2.0-S0361476X24000195-main.pdf

Link

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361476X24000195

Project information

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Community / Language group(s)

Project contact(s)

Professor Rhonda Craven

Rhonda.Craven@acu.edu.au

Researcher(s)

Prof Rhonda Craven
Prof Alexander Yeung
Prof Herbert Marsh
Em/Prof Janet Mooney
Prof Juanita Sherwood
Dr Marjorie Seaton
Dr Anthony Dillon
Prof Felicia Huppert
Ms Annalies van Westenbrugge

Supporting partner(s)

Complete

Yes

Start date

Not listed

End dateNot listed

Topic(s)

Closing the Gap focus

Funder(s)

Organisation(s)

Not listed

Indigenous involvement

Indigenous involvement notes

Em/Prof Janet Mooney is a Wandandian person from the Yuin Nation.

Dr Anthony Dillon is an academic and commentator on Indigenous affairs. Dr Anthony Dillon identifies as both Aboriginal and Australian.

Prof Juanita Sherwood is Wiradjuri woman, Professor Sherwood is a registered nurse, teacher, lecturer, researcher and manager with a depth of working experiences of some 30 years in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and education.

Our research draws on a strengths-based methodological framework pioneered by Craven et al. (2016). They theorised a new positive psychology of Indigenous thriving model “to broaden research paradigms available for Indigenous people, researchers, service providers, and other stakeholders who desire to see Indigenous Australians attain their full potential” (p. 33). Craven et al. emphasise that their model “seeks, in fact, to integrate Western and Indigenous methodologies, particularly those emphasizing the importance of embracing Indigenous knowledge, values, self-concepts, and autonomy, in new synergistic ways to yield translational research of salience to Indigenous children, youth, and communities” (p. 33).

Cultivating Capability: Explicating Critical Psychosocial Drivers of Educational Outcomes and Wellbeing for High-Ability Aboriginal Students

Output(s)

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