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Principles and outcomes of the Advocacy Project

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The Advocacy Research Project (described in Chapter 1) was designed to support student learning and student engagement. At certain social and economic times, when homelessness and unemployment are rife, student disengagement from schooling emerges as a major challenge for education and society.

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McCan, T., Schmidt, B. (2015). Principles and outcomes of the Advocacy Project. In: Hutchison, K., McCann, T. (eds) Somebody Knows, Somebody Cares. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-133-5_3

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