- Title
- 'Give me air not shelter': critical tales of a policy case of student re-engagement from beyond school
- Creator
- Smyth, John; Robinson, Janean
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/76475
- Identifier
- vital:7559
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2014.945965
- Identifier
- ISSN:0268-0939
- Abstract
- This paper tackles what is arguably one of the most pressing and intractable educational issues confronting western democracies and the disengagement and disconnection from schooling of alarming numbers of young people. The paper looks at the policy response in Victoria, Australia, and through ethnographic interviews with a small number of young people; it finds a significant mismatch between the policy intent of re-engagement programmes, and the experiences of young people themselves. It seems that this is an instance of what might be termed policy deafness, a situation that will likely produce devastating consequences unless corrected.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Journal of Education Policy Vol. 30, no. 2 (2015), p. 220-236; http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP100100045
- Rights
- Copyright © Taylor & Francis
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1303 Specialist Studies In Education; 1605 Policy and Administration; Equity/social justice; Inclusion
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