{"title":"Mediated disaffection and reconfigured subjectivities: The impact of a vocational learning environment on the re-engagement of 14–16-year-olds","authors":"D. Allan","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.11.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.11.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"In England, one in three 11–16-year-olds is said to illustrate poor behaviour (Sodha and Guglielmi, 2009), while students at key stage 4 (14-16) who are not engaged in education are often identified as, or at risk of becoming, disaffected (McKendrick et al., 2007). This paper explores the impact of a vocational learning environment on disaffected 14–16-year-old girls’ cognition. Through a series of semi-structured interviews, data are obtained in relation to the cognitive processes that motivate attitude to learning and engagement with a learning environment. Of particular relevance is the impact on: reflection, self-awareness, subjectivity and metacognitive functioning. Disaffected female students are seen to develop greater self-insight and objectivity as a result of their engagement in an alternative learning environment. It is thus argued that disaffection with learning may be reduced through a temporary removal from the problematic environment (school), although this can perpetuate poor perceptions of schooling.","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"50 1","pages":"45-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68312706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bangladeshi teachers' perceptions about student behavior in primary schools","authors":"Saiful Malak, Joanne Deppeler, U. Sharma","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.11.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.11.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"11 1","pages":"59-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.18546/IJSD.11.1.04","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68313113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oral language competence and the transition to school: socio-economic and behavioural factors that influence academic and social success","authors":"P. Snow","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.11.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.11.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"11 1","pages":"3-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.18546/IJSD.11.1.01","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68313045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How is behaviour policy in Scotland made, and what does this mean for the policy that ensues?","authors":"G. Macleod","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.11.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.11.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"11 1","pages":"41-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.18546/IJSD.11.1.03","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68313054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Customization in Schooling Markets: The Relationship between Curriculum and Pedagogy in a \"Pop-Up\" Learning Project, and the Epistemic Opportunities Afforded by Students' Interests and Backgrounds.","authors":"D. Hayes","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.10.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.10.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"10 1","pages":"3-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68312960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Harwood, S. O’Shea, Jonnell Uptin, N. Humphry, L. Kervin
{"title":"Precarious education and the university: Navigating the silenced borders of participation","authors":"V. Harwood, S. O’Shea, Jonnell Uptin, N. Humphry, L. Kervin","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.10.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.10.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"Access to and participation in university education is a key equity issue, with increased efforts to widen the participation of secondary school-aged students from low socio-economic status (LSES) backgrounds in many countries worldwide. In Australia, programmes aimed at widening university participation generally target LSES children and young people engaged in schooling. Access to such programmes thus demands a connection to schooling, yet not all school-age young people have such connections: they may experience what we term 'precarious' relationships to education. Without school connections, young people with precarious relationships to education have extremely limited opportunities to engage (or to imagine engaging) in higher education. This paper considers this issue from the perspectives of young people who have precarious relationships with school education. Drawing on qualitative research investigating disadvantage and university education, the paper reports on how the imagination of university education, which might be argued to be a 'silenced' border of social inclusion, is described by young people with precarious relationships to education. Drawing on Judith Butler's book Precarious Life (2004), the paper puts forward the argument that the precariousness of education is relational and that universities thus have a moral responsibility to recognize and respond to the educational precariousness of the Other.","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"10 1","pages":"23-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68312969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scuttle the deadbeats? A higher percentage of boats will rise if there are fewer leaky boats","authors":"Linda J. Graham","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.10.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.10.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"10 1","pages":"3-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68312934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discourses on Behaviour: A Role for Restorative Justice?.","authors":"V. Harold, T. Corcoran","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.10.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.10.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"The description and management of difficult behaviour in schools has interested educational practitioners and researchers worldwide, including in the UK. Concerns have been raised about the use and implications of more dominant discourses, namely those of behaviourism and zero tolerance, for understanding student behaviour. This article presents research, conducted in a secondary school in Northern England, exploring restorative justice as an alternative. Transcripts from a series of school staff focus groups and the school behaviour policy were analysed, using critical discourse analysis, in order to address two questions: (1) what are the dominant discourses on behaviour amongst school staff within the school? and (2) what spaces are available for the construction of alternative discourses regarding behaviour and relational action? The analysis confirms the predominance of behaviourist and zero-tolerance discourses and a reliance on individualistic explanations regarding difficult behaviour. However, the presence of a range of discursive resources within the staff focus groups suggests the viable use of an alternative discourse.","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"10 1","pages":"45-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.18546/IJSD.10.2.03","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68313002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Maccini, Joseph Calvin Gagnon, Candace A. Mulcahy, Kenneth Wright
{"title":"Mathematics Instruction in US Psychiatric Schools for Secondary Students with Emotional/Behavioural Disorders or Learning Disabilities.","authors":"P. Maccini, Joseph Calvin Gagnon, Candace A. Mulcahy, Kenneth Wright","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.10.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.10.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"Students served in alternative and segregated settings tend to receive educational services that are not on par with their public school peers. To develop a better understanding of the problem, the authors conducted a national study of secondary psychiatric schools in the United States. Specifically, the authors administered a survey to mathematics teachers in psychiatric schools to investigate (a) student and classroom level characteristics, and (b) special education mathematics teachers’ reported use of research-supported instructional practices with students classified with a learning disability (LD) or emotional/behavioural disorder (ED). The majority of the participating teachers stated that most of their students performed below grade level in mathematics. Teachers also reported frequently using a number of research-supported practices, including components of explicit instruction, strategy instruction, real-world problem solving, and instructional adaptations. However, the respondents also indicated that they seldom or never used a number of other research-supported practices. The authors provide implications for practice and future research based on the findings.","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"10 1","pages":"47-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68312730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Racialized Subjects in a Colour Blind School.","authors":"Laila Colding Lagermann","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.10.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.10.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"10 1","pages":"73-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.18546/IJSD.10.1.05","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68312800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}