Inequality, poverty, education : a political economy of school exclusion / Francesca Ashurst and Couze Venn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashurst, Francesca.

Contributor:

Venn, Couze.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Student expulsion--History.

Student expulsion.

Poverty.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 195 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

This book develops a political economy and a genealogy of school exclusion in order to reveal exclusion to be a symptom of more fundamental issues relating to poverty and inequality, reflected in the role of the state in managing their consequences, particularly regarding juvenile delinquency. It uses archival and documentary evidence to uncover the roots of exclusionary practices in political and economic struggles going back to the 19th century. These conflicts have had decisive effects on key shifts in social and educational policy from the Poor Law Reforms of 1834 to the emergence of the welfare state and the current neoliberal reconstitution of society according to the model of the market. In arguing that competing views of an equitable and just society underlie exclusion, the analysis opens up a space for envisaging radical new approaches and practices for dealing with children in trouble. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Elements for a Political Economy of Exclusion 1

The problem of exclusion 5

Genealogy and governmentality: elements for a counter-history of exclusion 13

Reform and the political economy of exclusion 23

2 Pauperism, Delinquency and Learning to Labour 29

Threats and victims 29

Threats 32

Victims 36

The case of Frances Colpit: 1819-1829 37

Conclusion 47

3 Labour, Poverty and the Export of Destitute Children As 'Waste' 49

The traffic in children 51

The Children's Friend Society 1830-1840: from charity to trade 54

The Hackney kidnappers: parish, parents and children 57

The children speak 62

Legitimating the 'traffic' in children 65

Conclusion: legalising exclusion and the governmentalisation of pauperism 68

4 Security, Population and the New Management of the Poor 70

Blaming the poor 71

Malthusian realism, Miles and moral entrepreneurship 74

The 'moral entrepreneur' and the formation of policy 77

5 Disciplining and Punishment: The New Exclusionary Regime Emerges 83

The new prisons: Parkhurst, The Penitentiary Model and a clash of values 87

Parkhurst: the reality of the new regime 91

6 Ragged Schools, Child-Centred Education and the Struggle for Egalitarian Politics 99

Including the poor: Carpenter, Unitarianism and alternative schools 100

The project of reform through education 107

Concluding remarks: punishing, normalizing and biopolitics 116

7 Mettray: Normalisation or Rescue? 118

Demetz' Mettray: healing, holding, guiding, teaching 120

Foucault's Mettray: normalisation through the Carceral 125

8 The Institutionalisation of Exclusion within Education 132

Reconceptualising the pauper child 134

Education as 'Remedy' for the 'Disease of Pauperism' 136

Prevention and correction: industrial and reformatory schools 144

Conclusion 151

9 'No More Excuses': Neoliberalism and the New Exclusion 155

Misspent youth and the new criminalisation 157

Context: the present 161

No More Excuses 168

Conclusion 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-190) and index.

ISBN:

9781137347008

1137347007

OCLC:

864093155