Pushed to the edge: Inclusion and behaviour support in schools
Val Gillies
Abstract
Schools have long struggled to embrace diversity while also responding to the pressure to improve discipline standards and attainment. This book takes a critical and empirically grounded look at how such concerns are increasingly being managed through the use of onsite ‘behaviour support units’. Commonly administered through pastoral support services these self-contained centres are located on school premises and enable difficult pupils to be removed from mainstream classrooms for extended periods without recourse to official exclusion channels. Despite a general acknowledgment that such units ... More
Schools have long struggled to embrace diversity while also responding to the pressure to improve discipline standards and attainment. This book takes a critical and empirically grounded look at how such concerns are increasingly being managed through the use of onsite ‘behaviour support units’. Commonly administered through pastoral support services these self-contained centres are located on school premises and enable difficult pupils to be removed from mainstream classrooms for extended periods without recourse to official exclusion channels. Despite a general acknowledgment that such units now exist in the majority of British secondary schools there is a remarkable gap in knowledge and literature about their workings. This book will offer a valuable and much needed insight into the politics and practices of internal school exclusion, as highlighted through the experiences of the young people attending the units. Drawing on uniquely situated ethnographic research in three London based behaviour support units this book provides an important and highly illuminating account of the institutional and inter-personal dynamics characterising internal school exclusion
Keywords:
schools,
exclusion,
behaviour
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447317463 |
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: September 2016 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447317463.001.0001 |