Truancy and Coercive Consent: Is There an Alternative?

Autor/in	McIntyre-Bhatty, Karen
Titel	Truancy and Coercive Consent: Is There an Alternative?
Quelle	In: Educational Review, 60 (2008) 4, S.375-390 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1911
Schlagwörter	Truancy; Home Schooling; Relevance (Education); Educational Environment; Nontraditional Education; Educational Attitudes; Discipline; Educational Policy; Attendance; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulabsentismus; Schulschwänzen; Schulverweigerung; Homeschooling; Home instruction; ; Hausunterricht; Heimschule; Relevance; Relevanz; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Disziplin; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Anwesenheit; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper suggests that rather than criminalising or pathologising truancy as a "deviant" behaviour in need of either treatment or punishment, truancy should be considered as a rational enactment of dissatisfaction with State educational provision. It should be of little surprise that attempts to "solve" the truancy "problem" by recourse to coercion or legal action have proved ineffective. Indeed, such practices may exacerbate rather that ameliorate the truancy and exclusion "problem". While attempts to improve staff-student relations, curriculum relevance and the school environment may prove beneficial in encouraging some absentees to return to school, further attention should be paid to alternative educational provision, and in particular to raising the awareness among staff, students and parents of the legality and potential benefits home education may offer for persistent school refusers. (Contains 13 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10