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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#339966" face="Arial Black"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black";color:#339966'>I’VE
ARRANGED THIS COLLOQUIUM AT SHORT NOTICE BECAUSE JENNY’S PRESENTATION AT
THE APS Conference in Darwin was not to be missed for anyone working in
Melbourne’s West….<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>ARTS,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>HUMAN DEVELOPMENT<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black";
color:#D00063'>Invites you to a Colloquium<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h1 align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3 face="Arial Black"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>Building home-school
partnerships: cohesion, diversity, and difference<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
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font-weight:bold'>Presented by Dr. Jenny Ricketts<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";
font-weight:bold'>When: Friday 23rd October Time: 12.00
– 1.00pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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w:st="on">Victoria</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Footscray</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
Campus (<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Ballarat Rd</st1:address></st1:Street>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:22.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>The Presenter<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dr Jenny Ricketts is a school psychologist who works with
adolescents, families, and staff in a Catholic, coeducational secondary school.
She is currently completing a PhD at La Trobe University. The focus of her
research is developing sustainable, respectful, and mutually beneficial
relationships between all members of the school community.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal'>This paper describes selected
findings from a social justice orientated qualitative research project.
Research shows that effective home-school partnerships enhance students’
learning. Within a social justice framework, home-school partnerships activate
the independence and interdependence of cohesion, diversity and difference. How
do families, staff, and young people build partnerships that embrace cohesion, diversity,
and difference? As psychologist in a Catholic, co-educational,
impoverished SES, multicultural (50+ ethnicities), multilingual (28 home
languages), secondary school, my aim was to explore the construction of
socially just, dynamic, and sustainable home-school partnerships. Staff members
(3) undertook in-depth, loosely structured interviews; individual family
members (10) contributed as cultural/language consultants; other participants
joined focus groups (12), arranged by culture/language (families), role
(staff), and year level (students). These generated input on the topics of
at-home support for learning, sense of welcome, and interrelationships. All
information was analysed using constructivist grounded theory that enabled an
open-ended, flexible, reflexive approach, allowing for emergent thematic layers
and responsive actions. The outer layer suggests cohesive goals,
‘diversity is valued’, and ‘triadic (family-staff-student)
relationships are welcomed’. A deeper layer suggests process themes
regarding policy formation, decision-making, and communication. Deeper still
are themes reflecting power relations. Thematic layers and emergent
actions suggest pathways towards building partnerships that value cohesion,
diversity, and difference. The imperative is embedding culturally aware triadic
conversations and decision-making processes in all home-school interactions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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href="mailto:Maureen_E_Ryan@vu.edu.au">Maureen_E_Ryan@vu.edu.au</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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