Absenteeism and the new 10% ruling in Norway

A case study

Bibliographic Data

ID12928858
AuthorsPaul Thomas (0000-0002-1366-3781, corresponding author), Øyvind Hennum
Year2019
Volume12
Issue1
Pages1-22
Publication date2019-05-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePower and Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1757-7438 • E-ISSN: 1757-7438
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1757743819850854
OpenAlexW2946980469
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited26

This study considers the issue of absenteeism in Norwegian high schools with a particular focus on the new controversial 10% ceiling, which began in August 2016. Data was obtained through documentary sources and participant observation in one high school with one of the highest absenteeism rates in the capital, Oslo. Employing Foucault’s ‘panoptic gaze’, the study also interrogates schools’ growing dependence on technology in self-reporting absence and enacting more effective forms of ‘disciplinary power’. The study argues that each school and each individual case warrant careful attention before macro-policies on a national level are enacted by politicians, who at best have a superficial familiarity with the challenges and uncertainties that constrain these students’ academic progress

Absenteeism · Attendance · Discipline · Economics · Norwegian · Panopticon · Participant observation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Warrant · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Substance Use and School Attendance

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