Pushed to the Edge: Inclusion and Behaviour Support in Schools

ISBN-13: 9781447317470 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str.

Val Gillies

Opis

In recent years, a little-noted policy has dramatically transformed--for the worse--the experience of schooling in the United Kingdom for a large number of young people. Internal behavior support units, which ostensibly serve to help manage and improve problematic behavior in students, have been installed in schools throughout the nation, with the result that large numbers of young people are removed from mainstream classrooms for long periods to undergo rehabilitative programs that operate with little oversight. Making use of the insights of young people experiencing these units, this book is the first to offer a detailed analysis and critique of this approach, and it should prompt sharp questions from parents, educators, and policy makers alike around issues of social justice, equal opportunities, and institutional racism.

Spis treści

Disciplining pupils: from exclusion to ‘inclusion’; An ethnography of ‘inclusion’: reflecting on the research process; Contextualising challenging behaviour; Damaged boys, needy girls; Dynamics of disadvantage: race, gender and class; ‘Yo momma ...’: foregrounding families; “Ain't doing tramp's work”: educational marginalisation and imagined futures; The politics of exclusion.