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- Title
Enabling Indigenous wellbeing in higher education: Indigenous Australian youth-devised strategies and solutions.
- Authors
Durmush, Georgia; Craven, Rhonda G.; Yeung, Alexander Seeshing; Mooney, Janet; Horwood, Marcus; Vasconcellos, Diego; Franklin, Alicia; Duncan, Christopher; Gillane, Renee
- Abstract
Indigenous youth comprise over half of the Indigenous Australian population; however, there is a scarcity of research that focuses on improving Indigenous Australians' wellbeing in higher education. The purpose of this study was to identify Indigenous-devised strategies to support wellbeing of salience to Indigenous Australian higher education students. Using Indigenous methodology, Indigenous youth (N = 7; aged between 18 and 25 years) studying at three higher education institutions in Australia participated in semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis identified strategies and solutions for supporting and enhancing Indigenous youth wellbeing in higher education. Participants suggested that their wellbeing would benefit from increased opportunities for them to gain role models. They also suggested culturally supportive higher education environments were critical and could be achieved by employing more Indigenous academics and Indigenous mentors to implement personalised student support, introducing mandatory cultural competency training for all staff, and employing culturally safe counselling services. Indigenous youth also suggested strategies for enhancing institutional policy such as ensuring Indigenous culture and perspectives were taught across all faculties; developing reconciliation action plans, financial support, and scholarships to require proof of Aboriginality and evidence of hardship; and an institutional wellbeing strategy designed to support Indigenous students' wellbeing.
- Subjects
HIGHER education; INDIGENOUS Australians; CULTURAL competence; STUDENT well-being; PARTICIPANT observation
- Publication
Higher Education (00181560), 2024, Vol 87, Issue 5, p1357
- ISSN
0018-1560
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10734-023-01067-z