Pushed to the edge : inclusion and behaviour support in schools / Val Gillies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gillies, Val, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School discipline--Great Britain.

School discipline.

Problem children--Behavior modification--Great Britain.

Problem children.

Inclusive education--Great Britain.

Inclusive education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 210 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Transcending aspiration: hopes and dreams

8. The politics of exclusion

We need to talk about race

Post-feminism and gendered power relations

Beyond critical pedagogy

Values beyond value

References

Index.

Invisible racism

Gender hierarchies and sexual violence

Class, distinction and the case of Ethan

6. 'Yo momma ... ': foregrounding families

Blaming the parents

Reaching parents: the centrality of mothers

Family first

Situated parenting: fighting your kid's corner

Minding the gap

Parenting, police and criminalisation

Gendering parenting

7. "Ain't doing tramp's work": educational marginalisation and imagined futures

Uncertain futures

Valuing education: learning and labour

Dirty money: weighing up the options

Aspirational girls

Keeping it in the family.

3. Contextualising challenging behaviour

Separate and different

Personalising inclusion: vulnerability and resilience

Connectedness and separation

Transnational ruptures: migrant experiences

Violence and vulnerability

Foregrounding the social and structural

4. Damaged boys, needy girls

At risk of being risky

'Emotional behavioural deficiency': Damaged goods?

Anger issues

Contextualising anger

Developmental deficits: challenging girls

5. Dynamics of disadvantage: race, gender and class

Gravensdale: Not racist but ...

'Do you want to be in this school?'

PUSHED TO THE EDGE

Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Disciplining pupils: from exclusion to 'inclusion'

The rise of the behaviour support unit

A British school to prison pipeline?

Back to the future: building character

Punishing the poor

Research, aims and ethics

Structure of the book

2. An ethnography of 'inclusion': reflecting on the research process

Minding the gap: moving from theory to practice

Scoping Hailingbrooke

From participant observation to groupwork

Broadening the focus

Gravensdale School

Meedham Girls

Acting into context?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Sep 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781447317517

1447317513

9781447317487

1447317483

9781447317494

1447317491

OCLC:

945552523