School exclusion – Berita, Riset, dan Analisis – The Conversation

‘Hair is not neutral: it is saturated with racial and cultural meaning’ Andrew Fox / Alamy Stock Photo

April 20, 2021

Afro hair: How pupils are tackling discriminatory uniform policies

Remi Joseph-Salisbury, University of Manchester

In the absence of explicit national legislation against hair-based discrimination, young people are demanding fairer rules - and a culture shift.

Oktober 25, 2019

School exclusions and knife crime: why we should be listening more to vulnerable children

Simon Edwards, University of Portsmouth

School exclusions aren’t increasing student attainment, in fact they’re making things worse.

Juni 11, 2019

School exclusions are on the up – but training teachers in trauma could help

Neil Harrison, University of Oxford

The education system is failing some of the country’s most vulnerable children.

Suspending a student for wagging school likely wouldn’t have the desired punitive effect. www.shutterstock.com

November 12, 2018

Expanding suspension powers for schools is harmful and ineffective

Linda J. Graham, Queensland University of Technology

There is conclusive evidence that in most cases, suspension only reinforces negative behaviour.

For many young Indigenous children, schools are Eurocentric establishments offering minimal cultural connections. Shutterstock

September 19, 2017

Excluding Indigenous youth from schools may severely increase their risk of incarceration

Dr Grace O'Brien, University of Technology Sydney

Indigenous youth are over-representation in juvenile detention centres, and excluding them from education could make this worse.

Students with disabilities are regularly segregated from their peers in the playground, classroom and lessons. from shutterstock.com

Juni 13, 2017

Report sparks concern about how schools support students with disabilities

Peter Walker, Flinders University

‘Cage-like’ facilities, segregation, and high numbers of exclusions show the concerning ways schools have responded to challenging behaviours by students with disabilities.

Schools increasingly use expulsion as a way to tackle bad behaviour. from www.shutterstock.com

September 15, 2016

Are we expelling too many children from Australian schools?

Jonathon Sargeant, Australian Catholic University

School expulsions are on the rise in Australia. But research shows individual punishment as a deterrent rarely works.

BBC Three’s show ‘Excluded’ follows children at The Bridge AP Academy. BBC/Keo Films/Oliver Groves

Januari 20, 2015

Explainer: what happens to kids who are kicked out of school?

Kieron Sheehy, The Open University

In 2013, 3,900 young people were permanently excluded from secondary schools in England. The most common reason for these children to be removed from the mainstream school system was persistent disruptive…

Present, but absent. Kid in corridor via michaeljung/Shutterstock

Juni 4, 2014

What lower truancy numbers don’t tell us about the children still missing class

Pat Thomson, University of Nottingham

At the end of last week the government released the autumn figures for pupil absence in English schools. The figures show an ongoing drop in the number of children skipping school. But they also raise…

A summer with Mr Drew for all excluded boys? Channel 4

Mei 13, 2014

It’s good TV, but most excluded boys can’t afford Mr Drew’s summer school