Carl Parsons - Education, Exclusion and Citizenship

Cover

Page i

Education, Exclusion and Citizenship

Permanent exclusions from schools in England have reached a level which causes widespread public concern. As schools compete with neighbouring schools for good pupils, headteachers are implicitly drawn to using their powers to exclude disruptive pupils who might affect school image.

This book provides a hard-hitting account of the realities of exclusion, examining the background to behaviours which typically result in exclusion, and asks questions about a society which subscribes to the communal neglect of those most in need. The author looks at the experience of excluded children, the law regulating exclusion, the obligations of the LEAs, and the prospects for inter-agency work with examples from Europe and the United States.

Finally, the book looks at the deeply embedded cultural and political factors which inhibit the development of prevention and early intervention strategies. It points to the need for fundamental shifts in values, policy, budgeting and law, and in the defined functions of social institutions if school exclusions are to be prevented, pupil disaffection is to be better managed and the prospects of developing some of the most challenging children into citizens are to be fulfilled.

Carl Parsons is Professor of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University College.

Page ii

This page intentionally left blank.

Page iii

Carl Parsons

London and New York

Page iv

First published 1999 by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

1999 Carl Parsons

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Parsons, Carl

Education, exclusion and citizenship/Carl Parsons.

p. cm.

1. Student suspensionGreat Britain. 2. Problem childrenGreat Britain. I. Title.

[LB3089.4.G7P37 1999]

371.5430941dc21 9835361

CIP

ISBN 0-203-01632-7 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-26703-6 (OEB Format)

ISBN 0-415-17496-1 (hbk)

ISBN 0-415-17497-X (pbk)

Page v

For Daniel, Christopher, Stuart, Robert, Richard, Melanie, Peter, Naomi, Tommy, Michael, Ryan, Philip, Shaun, Dan, Shane and many others we have known who have experienced permanent exclusions from their schools

Page vi

This page intentionally left blank.

Page vii

Page viii