Exclusion from School: Teenage Pregnancy and the Denial of Education

Autor/in	Lall, Marie
Titel	Exclusion from School: Teenage Pregnancy and the Denial of Education
Quelle	In: Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 7 (2007) 3, S.219-237 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1811
Schlagwörter	Expulsion; Mothers; Females; Pregnancy; Resource Allocation; Early Parenthood; Access to Education; Adolescents; Foreign Countries; Social Discrimination; Educational Discrimination; At Risk Students; Inclusive Schools; Educational Environment; Student Attitudes; Secondary School Students; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Relegation; Mother; Mutter; Weibliches Geschlecht; Schwangerschaft; Ressourcenallokation; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Ausland; Soziale Benachteiligung; Soziale Schließung; Inclusive school; Integrative Schule; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Schülerverhalten; Sekundarschüler; Großbritannien
Abstract	There is an unrecognised crisis in the education of pregnant schoolgirls and schoolgirl mothers. Girls leaving school due to pregnancy are not reported in official statistics. This has serious consequences in terms of resource allocation and planning of service provision. This article examines how girls are forced out of the mainstream education system because they are pregnant or have given birth. The consequences for the young mothers and their children are dramatic--as a result of their missing out on the crucial experience of education they may be left disaffected from society with poor future employment and life prospects. This is particularly important as teenage pregnancy disproportionately affects working-class girls. The crisis is exacerbated by the fact that research on the problem is dominated by health concerns, and that very little education data are collected. The article concludes that despite new government schemes trying to address some of the issues of teenage pregnancy, there is a lost generation of teenage girls who have become pregnant and given birth in the last two to three years and who have effectively "fallen through the net". (Contains 9 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10