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Finding Myself at Music Industry College

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Alternative Schooling, Social Justice and Marginalised Students

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This chapter focuses on the students at Music Industry College, providing insights into the experiences of students who had been marginalised and disenfranchised by mainstream schooling, and who were now getting back into learning, general life motivation and in some cases, personal transformation. Comments from graduates are also included. Illustrative vignettes and comments from students provide springboards for critical highlighting of educational matters.

I was at my last private school until the start of grade ten where I had some problems just with issues and stuff. So it didn’t really work out, and I just dropped out.

I spent a year not doing anything. I went through a couple of mental health wards and stuff, just with depression daily and that sort of thing, and then at the end of last year I found this place and so I decided to come here. It is more relaxed and it suits me.

Alfred, student

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  1. School of Teacher Education and Early Childhood, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield Central, Queensland, Australia

    Stewart Riddle

  2. School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield Central, Queensland, Australia

    David Cleaver

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Riddle, S., Cleaver, D. (2017). Finding Myself at Music Industry College. In: Alternative Schooling, Social Justice and Marginalised Students. Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58990-9_3

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