Pushed to the edge

This ambitious book is the first to provide a detailed insight into the politics and practices of internal school exclusion, highlighted through the experiences of the young people attending internal behaviour support units.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Val Gillies has researched and published in the area of family, social class and marginalised children and young people, producing a wide range journal articles and books and chapters on parenting, youth, behaviour support policies in schools, home school relations as well as qualitative research methods.

Summary

This ambitious book is the first to provide a detailed insight into the politics and practices of internal school exclusion, highlighted through the experiences of the young people attending internal behaviour support units.

Product details

• Authors: Val Gillies, Val (University of Westminster) Gillies
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.04.2016
• EAN: 9781447317463
• ISBN: 978-1-4473-1746-3
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 496 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology