Guiding Futures: The role of teachers in the formation of students' aspirations for higher education
This project aims to investigate the impact of teachers (and other educators working in schools) on students' aspirations for higher education. This project will provide insight into the explicit and implicit messages students glean from their teachers about their aspirations for higher education and ways of getting there.
The project will provide new evidence of how teachers guide the aspirations of school students (Year 3 to Year 12) for higher education, and recommend innovative and targeted approaches to university outreach involving teachers.
Guiding Futures was awarded a $90,295 HEPP NPP Grant and is led by Professor Jenny Gore along with a team of researchers at the University of Newcastle including Professor Max Smith and Dr Adam Lloyd.
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- Phone: +61 2 4913 8199
- Email: ceehe@newcastle.edu.au
Banner image by Louis Ndagijimana, (detail) 2021.
The work was developed in a staff and student art workshop at the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education.
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.