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Pushed to the Edge: Inclusion and Behaviour Support in Schools
Val Gillies
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Description for Pushed to the Edge: Inclusion and Behaviour Support in Schools
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JNFN; JNSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
This ambitious book is the first to provide a detailed insight into the politics and practices of internal school exclusion, common in British schools. It draws on intensive ethnographic research with pupils, their teachers and parents to address broad questions around social justice, equal opportunities and institutional racism.
This ambitious book is the first to provide a detailed insight into the politics and practices of internal school exclusion, common in British schools. It draws on intensive ethnographic research with pupils, their teachers and parents to address broad questions around social justice, equal opportunities and institutional racism.
Product Details
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
350g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447317470
SKU
V9781447317470
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Ref
99-50
About Val Gillies
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.
Reviews for Pushed to the Edge: Inclusion and Behaviour Support in Schools
This deeply narrative-driven research evocatively writes about a classed, raced and gendered education system for those children who are considered `troublesome'. A remarkable, honestly debated ethnographic work. Chrissie Rogers, Aston University While the analysis is conducted with scientific rigor and intellectual clarity, Gillies' style of writing is engaging and enjoyable, thus it should be warmly recommended to teachers ... Read more