Excluded From School: complex discourses and psychological perspectives

by: Christopher Arnold, Jane Yeomans and Sarah Simpson with a chapter by Mike Solomon

ISBN: 9781858564395

Price: £19.99

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192 pages
244 x 170mm
July 2009

Exclusion from school or college powerfully affects lives. In this book four practising psychologists working with young people in inner cities explore the experiences of people who have been involved with exclusion from school: the child, the family, the excluding school and the receiving unit. Each party tells their own story so although they relate the same events, each story is different. The astonishing complexity of the lives of those excluded is illuminated.

The book is unique in bringing together different perspectives, including historical, psychodynamic and unstable systems theory. It concludes with reflections on the harm that exclusion can do and puts forward new approaches to managing difficult behaviour in secondary schools.

The chapters deal with:

• Exclusion - a historical perspective


• Exclusion - a psychodynamic perspective


• Exclusion - a perspective from Chaos Theory


• Five case studies each told from the view of the family, the school, the unit and the child


• Conclusions - the damage done by school exclusion and recommendations for preventing it.

Excluded from School is essential reading for professionals working with children and young people who are vulnerable and at risk of exclusion: social workers, educational psychologists, teachers in secondary schools and pupil referral units, learning mentors and local authority policy makers.

Author Details

The authors all work for Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. Dr Christopher Arnold is a senior educational psychologist who has written widely in his field. Dr Jane Yeomans is a specialist senior educational psychologist and is also academic and professional Tutor in Educational Psychology at the University of Birmingham. Dr Sarah Simpson is a clinical psychologist who previously worked in a residential facility for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties.

Dr. Mike Solomon is a consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic in london, and the London Borough of Camden Secondary Behaviour Support Service.

Reviews

Excluded from School provides a deep insight into the problem of school exclusion. Arnold et al. view school exclusion as the final outcome of myriad biological, psychological and social forces at work not only in the life of the child and family but also in the society. - Educational Psychology in Practice

Five powerful case studies, each exploring in detail the experiences of school exclusion ... offer a significant contribution to the wider picture - Runnymede Bulletin

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