Approaches to improving school attendance: Insights from australian principals.
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School absenteeism has been concerning educators in the Global North (including Australia) as research suggests a relationship between school attendance, academic achievement and subsequent life chances. This paper focuses on the perspectives of 50 school leaders in Queensland, Australia about approaches to improving attendance. Strategies reflected the cultural, economic and social diversity of their school communities. In general, quality curricula and pedagogies were considered important, but were not explicitly linked to attendance. This suggests the need for schools to develop strategies to enhance student engagement in meaningful learning through quality curricula and pedagogies within a positive school environment.
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A teacher's welcoming and non-judgmental response to students returning after periods of absence can rebuild trust and facilitate reintegration into the school environment.
“a teacher's welcoming and non-judgmental response to students returning after periods of absence as an approach that can rebuild trust and facilitate reintegration into the school environment (Mills et al., 2019).”
From Their voices matter: student and professional perspectives on overcoming school attendance problems in the context of social, emotional, and behavioral difficulties (2025) · cites this paper as Mills et al., 2019
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- Authors
- Mills, M., Howell, A., Lynch, D., & Dungan, J.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Howell, Angelique
- Venue
- Leadership and Policy in Schools
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2019-11-27
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 404-415
- ISSN
- 1570-0763 (ISSN-L)
- 1744-5043
- OpenAlex
- W2917936738
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 2.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- discovery.ucl.ac.uk
- Locations
- Leadership and Policy in Schools (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Department of Education, Queensland
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
- Social Sciences › Education › Parental Involvement in Education
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › School Health and Nursing Education
- Keywords
- school attendance, school absenteeism, school principals, school leadership, student engagement, pedagogy, positive school climate, academic performance, Queensland schools
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