Sally Power, Jemma Bridgeman, Gavin Duffy, Gillean McCluskey, Alice Tawell, Annie Taylor
{"title":"Outsourcing Trouble: A Home International Comparison of Alternative Provision Across the UK.","authors":"Sally Power, Jemma Bridgeman, Gavin Duffy, Gillean McCluskey, Alice Tawell, Annie Taylor","doi":"10.1080/00071005.2025.2481869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2025.2481869","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explores the complex landscape of alternative provision across the UK and its implications for school exclusion. Drawing on interviews with over 400 professionals, parents, and pupils in ten selected local authorities in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, we find marked differences in the scale and nature of provision. These differences reflect the UK's diverging political economies of education. England's provision reflects its preference for quasi-market mechanisms. Scotland's reflects a commitment to inclusive education. Wales supports public provision but bears the legacy of historic control by England, while Northern Ireland's landscape is almost entirely publicly provided. The data suggest that the scale and diversity of alternative provision does not reduce school exclusions. England has the highest rates of exclusion and the greater number and diversity of providers. Scotland has lower rates of exclusions and fewer providers. It may even be that the availability of alternative provision creates its own demand. However, the relationship between exclusion rates and alternative provision is not straightforward, nor are its implications for educational parity. The paper concludes by arguing there is a pressing need for research on the opportunity costs of alternative provision for young people and the public sector.</p>","PeriodicalId":47509,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Studies","volume":"73 4","pages":"429-448"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12327216/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144795848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Philosophical Limitations of Educational Assessment: Implications for Academic Selection","authors":"James Conroy","doi":"10.1080/00071005.2024.2396188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2024.2396188","url":null,"abstract":"Published in British Journal of Educational Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":47509,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Studies","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142194459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class","authors":"Flora Petrik","doi":"10.1080/00071005.2024.2396724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2024.2396724","url":null,"abstract":"Published in British Journal of Educational Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":47509,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142260375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Schooling for Refugee Children: A Social Justice Perspective Informed by Children from Syria","authors":"Esther Tsz Wing Ng","doi":"10.1080/00071005.2024.2396725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2024.2396725","url":null,"abstract":"Published in British Journal of Educational Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":47509,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Studies","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142260374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Necessity of Aesthetic Education – The Place of the Arts on the Curriculum","authors":"Tony Eaude","doi":"10.1080/00071005.2024.2398293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2024.2398293","url":null,"abstract":"Published in British Journal of Educational Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":47509,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142194461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Critical Encounter: Jean Floud’s Appraisal of Karl Mannheim","authors":"Martyn Hammersley","doi":"10.1080/00071005.2024.2390014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2024.2390014","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines Jean Floud’s assessment of the work of Karl Mannheim, against the background of the development of British sociology of education in the 1940s and 50s. She compared his approach...","PeriodicalId":47509,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Studies","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142194460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking Knowledgeable Practice in Education","authors":"Grace Healy","doi":"10.1080/00071005.2024.2395119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2024.2395119","url":null,"abstract":"Published in British Journal of Educational Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":47509,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142194462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital and Postdigital Learning for Changing Universities","authors":"Jia Jia","doi":"10.1080/00071005.2024.2387441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2024.2387441","url":null,"abstract":"Published in British Journal of Educational Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":47509,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Studies","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142194463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brian Simon and the Struggle for Education","authors":"Marisa Bittar","doi":"10.1080/00071005.2024.2384208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2024.2384208","url":null,"abstract":"Published in British Journal of Educational Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":47509,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142194464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Ecological Inquiry into Transnational English Language Teachers’ Emotional Vulnerability and Agency","authors":"Mostafa Nazari, Jaber Kamali","doi":"10.1080/00071005.2024.2388542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2024.2388542","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we propose an ecological model of teacher agency and emotional vulnerability that draws on epistemological roots of these two constructs to capture historico-personal, socio-organiza...","PeriodicalId":47509,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Educational Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142194506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}