Alternative spaces of failure. Disabled ‘bad boys’ in alternative further education provision

Johnston, Craig; Bradford, Simon

doi:10.1080/09687599.2019.1601070

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“…The rather linear way in which bonding forms of social capital are applied to a child as desirable to, or what a child should, encounter in APs-for the norms and abilities they seemingly encourage-can risk ignoring how inequalities for children in APs are experienced [49]. Bourdieu's critical schema is thus crucial here, as it acknowledges that trust and belonging can also limit the choices and agency of learners.…”

Section: Type Of Capital Social Capital In Ap Settings Effects On Chi...mentioning

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Outcomes beyond Evaluation: The Impetus and Measure of Relationships within Alternative Provisions

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Nolty

2023

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In the context of rising interest in Alternative Provisions (APs) amongst policymakers and researchers in England, this article examines social capital and accountability in this ‘new’ field of enquiry. APs stress the value of supportive relationships for the generation of trust, belonging, reciprocities, and a broadening of these aspects of social capital through close networks, but how are these to be portrayed through emerging accountability measures? We focus on the potential and limitations of social capital for encompassing more than measurable outcomes. The article will revisit social capital by analysing the original sites of the production of this theory and its significance to emerging policy processes and relationship-based practices in APs. We argue that as a metaphor for the positive consequences of relationships, social capital has a place in the knowledge and processes that underpin APs, but its significance rests in its ability to overcome the issues related to social segregation, power, and (school) exclusion.

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Section: Type Of Capital Social Capital In Ap Settings Effects On Chi...mentioning

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Outcomes beyond Evaluation: The Impetus and Measure of Relationships within Alternative Provisions

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2023

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“…Neglected in the public consciousness and at a policy level, Alternative Provision is equally neglected in the academic literature compared to the volume of research on mainstream settings with some notable exceptions (e.g. Thomson and Pennacchia 2015;Mills and McGregor 2016;Johnston and Bradford 2019). Part of the issue is to do with the extreme diversity of the sector, not just in the UK but internationally.…”

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Atmospheres, spaces and job crafting: home visits in Alternative Provision

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2021

Research Papers in Education

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Neglected in policy and the public consciousness, Alternative Provision is the expanding putty of the education sector, working within the gaps left by other agencies to re-engage children. Yet to engage children, Alternative Provision must first engage families and home visits are crucial to this process. Often triggered by absences or safeguarding concerns, homes visits are inherently risky both to the safety of practitioners but also to the fragile trust that is built with families. Rather than being purely objective practices, home visits are deeply embodied, sensuous experiences: from the apprehension and neighbour-scrutiny of the doorstep to inside homes that are sometimes sealed, sometimes permeable, practitioners engage in 'way-finding' through room and histories, spaces of affective atmospheres made and unmade, crafted and destroyed through the interaction of people, artefacts and light. And here, improvising, practitioners craft their jobs as equally as they craft engagement.

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“…This required new standards of socio-economic behaviour tied to multiple gazes, such as school effectiveness targets, tables and progress scores, and a preoccupation with ameliorating the risks related to an exclusion from the labour market (Ball, 2018a). This led some politicians to depict working-class habits, conditions and modes of distinction as embodiments of deficient cultural and social capital (Skeggs, 1997) and, thus, positioned some students in negative terms (Johnston and Bradford, 2019). This is most apparent in regards to assumed abilities required for the labour People, Place and Policy (2020): 14/2, pp.…”

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Dis/locating Imagined Futures: The disabled habitus and young disabled people in alternative provision

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2020

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A bstractThis article considers the disabled habitus and a small group of young disabled people who are attending an Alternative Provision (AP), within one English Further Education College. The aim of this article is to understand the significance of the body in relation to these students' work to assemble and locate a vivid imagined future, and proposes that the college functions as a critical space where much of this body work gets played-out. The article draws on an ethnographic study of a group of school-aged, working-class disabled students; a group whose educational, employment and social outcomes are chronically stagnant in England. The article postulates that their inclusions in to a college have unintended effects and consequences, which illuminates some of the pernicious consequences of school exclusion. Despite several negative experiences, both inside and outside the AP, the article shows how young disabled people develop and appropriate capital to inform and disrupt the habitus. The article concludes with questions about APs as constituting the means to confer value upon young disabled students in search of identities that are apposite to paid employment within the contemporary (and future) labour market.

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Alternative spaces of failure. Disabled ‘bad boys’ in alternative further education provision

Cited by 12 publications

References 71 publications

Outcomes beyond Evaluation: The Impetus and Measure of Relationships within Alternative Provisions

Outcomes beyond Evaluation: The Impetus and Measure of Relationships within Alternative Provisions

Atmospheres, spaces and job crafting: home visits in Alternative Provision

Dis/locating Imagined Futures: The disabled habitus and young disabled people in alternative provision

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