{"title":"A word from the editors","authors":"G. McCluskey, Gwynedd Lloyd","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.07.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.07.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"7 1","pages":"3-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68311650","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":"Mediation in Schools: Tapping the Potential.","authors":"R. Hendry","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.07.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.07.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"7 1","pages":"26-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.18546/IJSD.07.1.05","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68311525","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":"\"Just Doing Stuff\"? Place, Memory and Young Men's Educational Disaffection in a Former Coal-Mining Area in England.","authors":"N. Bright","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.07.1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.07.1.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"7 1","pages":"44-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.18546/IJSD.07.1.08","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68311235","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":"'Bitchy girls and silly boys': Gender and exclusion from school","authors":"A. Carlile","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.06.2.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.06.2.05","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with findings about gender which form part of a larger ethnographic study. The study was undertaken during my employment as a local authority (school district) Pupil Support Officer, where my work involved the support of young people who had been permanently excluded (expelled) from school for a variety of reasons, including sexual assault, violence against their peers or teachers, and what was known as 'persistent disruptive behaviour'. It focussed on the effects of instances of actual or threatened permanent exclusion from secondary school on pupils, families and professionals in an urban local authority: 'Enway'.","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"6 1","pages":"30-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.18546/IJSD.06.2.05","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68311266","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":"Family-Centered Practice with Non-Attending Students in Hong Kong.","authors":"Y. Lau","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.06.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.06.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"Yuk King LAU, PhD Assistant Professor in Department of Social Work, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR, China yklau@cuhk.edu.hk Introduction In the 2005/06 school year, ‘habitual truancy/nonattendance’ ranked second among all discipline problems (after ‘disruptive behaviors in school’ in terms of total number of cases reported.) It accounted for 13.6% of the total case load for secondary schools in Hong Kong (The Education and Manpower Bureau, 2006, p.16 and 58). For the 2006/07 and 2007/08 school years, the reported cases of school non-attendance 1.0% and 1.1% of the total student population in primary and secondary schools (Director of Education Bureau, 2008).","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"6 1","pages":"5-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68311121","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}
John S. Scott, Richard B. White, B. Algozzine, K. Algozzine
{"title":"Effects of Positive Unified Behavior Support on Instruction.","authors":"John S. Scott, Richard B. White, B. Algozzine, K. Algozzine","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.06.2.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.06.2.07","url":null,"abstract":"Author Note Support for this research was provided in part by Grant No. H237F40012 and H238X00001 from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, awarded to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the Department of Education, and no official endorsement should be inferred. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Bob Algozzine, BRIC/EDLD/COED, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223 [rfalgozz@email.uncc.edu]. Positive Behavior Support (PBS) is a broad range of systemic and individualized strategies for achieving important social and learning outcomes while preventing problem behavior (Sugai et al., 2000). PBS involves the assessment and reengineering of environments so that reductions in problem behaviors are evident and children experience an increase in the social, personal, and professional quality of their lives (Horner, 2000; Horner, Sugai, and Vincent, 2004 and others). PBS targets a broad set of variables as a base for changing a person’s behavior (cf. Horner, Sugai, and Vincent, 2004 and others).","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"33 1","pages":"41-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68311501","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":"Turning around at-Risk Schools: What Effective Principals Do.","authors":"S. Nor, S. Roslan","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.06.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.06.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"At-risk schools are defined by the Department of Education in the state of Selangor, Malaysia as schools with serious disciplinary problems and low academic achievement. In 2003, the Selangor Department of Education identified 22 schools in this category (Selangor State Department of Education, 2003). Some have shown remarkable improvements and have turned around the situation from being \"at-risk\" to \"excellent.\" This paper is based on a qualitative study of two selected turn-around at-risk schools, one in the State of Selangor and the other in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Both had been listed as at-risk by the education department, but are now considered as exemplary due to their accomplishments in various endeavors. In this paper, the authors describe and discuss what principals in these schools did to change the climate of their schools into a positive one that enabled them to turn around their at-risk schools to schools deemed as excellent.","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"6 1","pages":"21-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.18546/IJSD.06.2.04","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68311601","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":"A Comprehensive Approach to Disruptive Behaviors in the Classroom and Home.","authors":"Jane S. Baker, Deana M. Hollaway","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.06.2.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.06.2.06","url":null,"abstract":"Deana M. Hollaway, PhD, NCC, LPC Center for Attachment and Family Development 1409 Kathy Lane SW Suite #10 Decatur, AL 35601 (256) 353-8528 dhollaway@pclnet.net The impact of the economic crisis in America is having significant consequences across all environments. Children in Alabama are being hit particularly hard, with budget constraints leading to greatly reduced services for marginalized children and families in rural and urban areas. According to the United States Census Bureau, 16.6% of the population in Alabama fell within the poverty level in 2007. Census data also reveals that only 75% of Alabamians have attained at least a high school education. For urban and rural children in Alabama who exist at or below the poverty line, their social, environmental, and educational difficulties are magnified by an overall lack of resources and opportunities and further reduced services. The profound level of deprivation that these children experience has been well documented through reduced graduation rates, higher incidents of incarceration, and a perpetuation of family legacies defined by impoverishment.","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"6 1","pages":"37-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68311346","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":"Each One, Teach One: A Methodological Approach for National Disaster School Response.","authors":"Jean R. Strait, Joyce Jones","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.06.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.06.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"Jean Strait and Joyce Jones Hamline University Background Hamline University, a medium sized college in St. Paul Minnesota, dedicated resources and time to New Orleans, Louisiana in its efforts to rebuild and reclaim the city. Days after Hurricane Katrina hit, Hamline sent students, faculty and staff to help with recovery efforts. The Education Club adopted Martin Luther King Science and Technology school (MLK) soon after to help in cleaning and rebuilding the school and sent over $20,000.00 in books, supplies, merchandise gift cards, food and water to help with this effort. Still fueled by the great need in New Orleans for assistance, the group’s leader Dr. Jean Strait worked with Traveler’s Insurance Company and received a grant of $30,000 to start an online tutoring and mentoring program that would be staffed by Hamline University and Avalon High School students in St. Paul. Students traveled to New Orleans in March of 2008 to meet their MLK student mentees, help with self-esteem programming, and create relationships of trust and respect with the mentees. The first phase of the project ended in June of 2008.","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"6 1","pages":"9-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68310759","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":"Responding to School Disaffection: Insights from the Republic of Ireland.","authors":"T. Murphy","doi":"10.18546/IJSD.06.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18546/IJSD.06.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"Dr Timothy Murphy Senior Lecturer Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education Leeds Metropolitan University Headingley Campus Beckett Park Leeds LS6 3QS Introduction In a recent publication, Fitzgerald (2003) inquired if the educational system in the Republic of Ireland was catering adequately for the less able learners and/or those from disadvantaged backgrounds. This paper responds to the question by providing an overview of educational inequality in the Irish context with a particular focus on what are referred to as critical transition points, at which particular cohorts of students are perceived to be in danger of dropping out of the system. It will also provide an examination of the explanations that are typically put forward to explain the persistence of educational inequality in the Republic of Ireland. Such persistence is all the more glaring when one considers the amount of investment that has been allocated to it, particularly since the middle of the 1960s. The concluding section will highlight specific strategies for tackling the vitally important question of educational disadvantage in the Irish context.","PeriodicalId":90740,"journal":{"name":"The international journal on school disaffection","volume":"6 1","pages":"35-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68311047","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}