Permanent Exclusion from School and Institutional Prejudice

Permanent exclusion from school and institutional prejudice Creating change through critical bureaucracy Anna Carlile This book tells the story of permanent exclusion from school from within an urban children's services department. It focuses on two areas: what contributes to instances of permanent exclusion from school, and what the effects are of its existence as a disciplinary option. The book questions how and why local government officers make particular decisions about children and young people. Rather than focussing on what children and young people 'did' behaviourally to 'get excluded', the book adopts a Foucauldian analysis to concentrate on their place within a larger policy-community which includes professionals and policy makers. It adopts a critical-bureaucratic exercise in â studying upâ on powerful organisations: an informed approach to ameliorating social inequity. The findings described here suggest a broad, deep and opaque seam of institutional prejudice: permanent exclusion from school can be understood to be both caused by this and to intensify its effects. This has implications for the â voicesâ of young people subject to or at risk of permanent exclusion from school, and the final chapter outlines a Foucauldian/Freirian â student voiceâ project, offering ideas about how schools might tackle this.

Criminology · Political science · Prejudice (legal term) · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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