Event overview
by Christy Kulz
This seminar brings together researchers, community organisers and advocates to explore how school inclusion and exclusion policies are impacting on the lives of students and generating new spaces of inequality within education. The Education Act 2011 has further centralised power while eroding parents’ and students’ access to redress. While the permanent exclusion of students has become an easier, less accountable option, alternate methods of informal exclusion have also grown. The session will examine:
- How the demands of a results-driven education system exacerbates exclusions
- What role discriminatory practices play in the disproportionate exclusion of ethnic minority, working-class and male students
- The rapid, unmonitored expansion of on-site internal exclusion units and the social impact of these units
- Unregulated ‘back door’ methods of exclusion being used
Speakers include:
Val Gillies, Professor of Sociology (Goldsmiths), will speak about her new book 'Pushed to the Edge: Inclusion and Behaviour Support in Schools' which will be published by Policy Press next year.
Gus John, founding member of Communities Empowerment Network (CEN), will speak about the organisation’s work advocating for excluded children and their parents.
Rachel Knowles, Senior Education and Community Care Solicitor at Just for Kids Law, will discuss her work advocating for students excluded from school.
Christy Kulz, Postdoctoral Researcher (Goldsmiths) will discuss the key findings from CEN’s recent report ‘Mapping the Exclusion Process: Inequality, Justice and the Business of Education’.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Dec 2015 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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