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A Student-centred Sociology of Australian EducationBasic Demographics for Voices of Experience Participants

A Student-centred Sociology of Australian Education: Basic Demographics for Voices of Experience... [The demographics chapter takes a closer look at the participants in the core study focused on in this book. In total, 2500 people participated in the Voices of Experience school experiences survey in 2018. This chapter provides basic demographic information about the respondents in comparison to broader populations, to understand how representative their views are. Participants ranged in age from 14 to 79 yrs, and they represented all states of Australia in proportion to the broader population. Most were born in Australia. At least a fifth of participants came from culturally diverse backgrounds – 16.5% of participants came from homes where languages other than English were spoken and almost a tenth were born overseas; and 4.6% were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. Overall, 77.2% of the participants were allocated a female sex at birth, 22.2% male, less than 1% a non-binary sex or another option. Whilst most identified as cisgender now 90.8%, a smaller portion now identified as non-binary/genderqueer (5.3%), female-to-male transgender (1.9%) and male-to-female transgender (1.5%). A further 1.4% had another identity. Just under one tenth had disabilities. Most attended schools in the government sector; Catholic and independent schools were also represented. Tutorial questions for this chapter consider how under-represented groups’ views may be further researched by sociologists of education – including the readers – who are encouraged to act as sociologists. Questions prompt readers to trial the study’s survey questions with under-represented family and friends (such as older people) in phone and face-to-face interviews, emails, discussion boards and other methods, testing how easily they can capture relevant data using classic sociology approaches.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Student-centred Sociology of Australian EducationBasic Demographics for Voices of Experience Participants

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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-36862-3
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25 –38
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10.1007/978-3-030-36863-0_3
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[The demographics chapter takes a closer look at the participants in the core study focused on in this book. In total, 2500 people participated in the Voices of Experience school experiences survey in 2018. This chapter provides basic demographic information about the respondents in comparison to broader populations, to understand how representative their views are. Participants ranged in age from 14 to 79 yrs, and they represented all states of Australia in proportion to the broader population. Most were born in Australia. At least a fifth of participants came from culturally diverse backgrounds – 16.5% of participants came from homes where languages other than English were spoken and almost a tenth were born overseas; and 4.6% were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. Overall, 77.2% of the participants were allocated a female sex at birth, 22.2% male, less than 1% a non-binary sex or another option. Whilst most identified as cisgender now 90.8%, a smaller portion now identified as non-binary/genderqueer (5.3%), female-to-male transgender (1.9%) and male-to-female transgender (1.5%). A further 1.4% had another identity. Just under one tenth had disabilities. Most attended schools in the government sector; Catholic and independent schools were also represented. Tutorial questions for this chapter consider how under-represented groups’ views may be further researched by sociologists of education – including the readers – who are encouraged to act as sociologists. Questions prompt readers to trial the study’s survey questions with under-represented family and friends (such as older people) in phone and face-to-face interviews, emails, discussion boards and other methods, testing how easily they can capture relevant data using classic sociology approaches.]

Published: Jan 4, 2020

Keywords: Population; Demographics; Statistics; Data; Student; Education; Australia; Survey

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