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9781853029431 Academic Inspection Copy

Children's Homes and School Exclusion

Redefining the Problem
  • ISBN-13: 9781853029431
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By Isabelle Brodie
  • Price: AUD $62.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/06/2001
  • Format: Paperback (231.00mm X 155.00mm) 192 pages Weight: 294g
  • Categories: Teenagers: advice for parents [VFXC1]
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This text highlights the significance of school exclusion as a pivotal process that has long-term negative effects not just on the individuals themselves but also society as a whole. Drawing on individual accounts, the author demonstrates how aspects of the care system contribute to looked-after children being out of school. The book explores the reasons for the difficulties they experience, and argues that they need to be differently conceptualized. By drawing on both the personal accounts of the young people and on evidence gained from interviewing teachers and care professionals, she argues that exclusion is a social process. She stresses the importance of the young people's relationships with care givers and identifies a problematic gap between the care and education systems which contributes to their ongoing cycle of social exclusion.
1. Introduction. 2. Explaining exclusion. 3. The research design. 4. The young people. 5. The inter-agency context. 6. Interactions between professionals and young people. 7. Exclusion: An alternative definition. 8. Exclusion: The social work response. 9. Conclusion. Notes. References. Index.

Children in public care are 10 times more vulnerable to exclusion than those living with thier families... This timely book offers a sociological and historical analysis of the problem, providing a frame for a detailed qualitative study of 17 boys in residential care who were excluded. All had suffered stressful experiences, including severe abuse, in their family lives and their fragmented care careers had led to many changes of school. The familiar themes of disrupted learning, ill-perepared placements and poor communication recur in their histories.

Isabelle Brodie shows that exclusion is seldom and event but more often a complex process by which a consensus develops among a groups of professionals and carers that the child cannot be contained in mainstream school. well-meaning actions, such as withdrawing children from the classroom when they show signs of stress, maycontribute to the inevitable... This excellent book will be of interest to anyone who is concerned to improve educational opportunities for young people in care and is essential reading for designated teachers and educational psychologists. It offers a valuable insight into the systemic nature of a problem that is too often attributed to the emotional and behavioural difficulties of individual children.

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