Misunderstood, Misinterpreted and Mismanaged; Voices of Students marginalised in a Secondary School Wenham Lucy
This ethnography gives a voice to a small group of students who are required to spend time in a school withdrawal-unit away from the mainstream classroom setting, most commonly following a period of…
Specifikacia Misunderstood, Misinterpreted and Mismanaged; Voices of Students marginalised in a Secondary School Wenham Lucy
This ethnography gives a voice to a small group of students who are required to spend time in a school withdrawal-unit away from the mainstream classroom setting, most commonly following a period of sustained low-level disruption; students who all too often feel that their voice is not heard. What emerges through the telling of their lived experiences, is the breadth and diversity of ways - from the blatant to the inadvertent, the miniscule to the looming, the inter-personal to the structural - through which they make sense of their tangled, intricate, oftentimes deeply-individual marginalisation, as they navigate schooling day-by-day. Structural issues of transition, ability groups and pathways are seen to fuel marginalisation, as are aspects of classroom practice, such as behaviour management policy enactment or the choice of pedagogical approach. Teacher-student relationships