This book tells the story of permanent exclusion from school from within an urban children's services department. It focuses on two areas: what contributes to instances of permanent exclusion from school, and what the effects are of its existence as a disciplinary option. The book questions how and why local government officers make particular decisions about children and young people. Rather than focussing on what children and young people 'did' behaviourally to 'get excluded', the book adopts a Foucauldian analysis to concentrate on their place within a larger policy-community which...
This book tells the story of permanent exclusion from school from within an urban children's services department. It focuses on two areas: what contri...
This book tells the story of permanent exclusion from school from within an urban children's services department. It focuses on two areas: what contributes to instances of permanent exclusion from school, and what the effects are of its existence as a disciplinary option. The book questions how and why local government officers make particular decisions about children and young people. Rather than focussing on what children and young people 'did' behaviourally to 'get excluded', the book adopts a Foucauldian analysis to concentrate on their place within a larger policy-community which...
This book tells the story of permanent exclusion from school from within an urban children's services department. It focuses on two areas: what contri...
Exploring the experiences of LGBTQ parents and their children and their relationship with schools, this study illuminates how these families work with schools and how schools do, or do not, support children of LGBTQ parents. Based on empirical research and making space for the voices of parents and children, the work extends beyond traditional studies on gay and lesbian parents to include bisexual, transgender, and queer parents, as well as ethnicity and socioeconomic issues and the influence of pressure groups, school inspection frameworks, government, the media, celebrity LBGTQ...
Exploring the experiences of LGBTQ parents and their children and their relationship with schools, this study illuminates how these families work w...
