Resilience as a quadripartite responsibility: Indigenous students and distance education

Authors

  • Julie Anne Willems Monash University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61468/jofdl.v16i1.104

Keywords:

resilience, attrition, distance education (DE), holistic approach, Indigenous peoples, connectedness

Abstract

Considerations of educational resilience are often linked to student participation, retention, and outcomes in distance higher education, in spite of adversity, equity issues, or ‘invisible fences’ that students may face. This paper further develops the quadripartite model of educational resilience (Willems, 2010; Willems & Reupert, forthcoming); that is, educational resilience as the shared responsibility of students, educators, institutions, and communities—as a means to help assess and promote educational resilience and minimise student attrition in a specific cohort of distance learners, namely indigenous peoples. Through this lens the experiences of an online indigenous distance learner are explored.

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Published

2012-04-06

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2012): Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning

Section

DEANZ 2012 CONFERENCE

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