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Record Nr.

UNINA9910438225803321

Autore

Carlile Anna

Titolo

Permanent exclusion from school and institutional prejudice : creating change through critical bureaucracy / / Anna Carlile

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rotterdam ; ; Boston, : SensePublishers, c2013

ISBN

94-6209-182-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Studies in inclusive education ; ; v.20

Disciplina

370

371.5

371.5/43

371.543

Soggetti

Student expulsion

School discipline

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Channelling Ethnographic Reflexivity -- The Extended Body in Contested Borderlands -- Working Under the Shadow of Permanent Exclusion -- ‘Bitchy Girls and Silly Boys’ -- ‘Get Out of My Class!’ -- Institutional Racism and the Social Boundaries Between People -- Policy and Paperwork in the Administration of Permanent Exclusion From School -- Some Conclusions and Recommendations -- The Illuminate Student Researchers Project -- Appendix -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Permanent exclusion from school and institutional prejudice Creating change through critical bureaucracy Anna Carlile 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 includes professionals and



policy makers. It adopts a critical-bureaucratic exercise in ‘studying up’ on powerful organisations: an informed approach to ameliorating social inequity. The findings described here suggest a broad, deep and opaque seam of institutional prejudice: permanent exclusion from school can be understood to be both caused by this and to intensify its effects. This has implications for the ‘voices’ of young people subject to or at risk of permanent exclusion from school, and the final chapter outlines a Foucauldian/Freirian ‘student voice’ project, offering ideas about how schools might tackle this.