“…However, dated such thinking may seem, it persists or, rather, following Deleuze (2004), ‘insists’ in the thinking evidenced in education systems today. There are striking continuities between the language of ‘adaptive behaviour’ found in a Western Australian policy of 1993 (Chambers and Forlin, 2021, p. 7) and current practice in schools in England, where failure to conform to normative expectations of behaviour results in the disproportionate exclusion of students with social, emotional and mental health issues (Strand and Fletcher, 2014), disabilities and additional needs (EPI, 2020), and from black Caribbean, mixed white and black Caribbean, and gypsy or Roma traveller backgrounds (DfE, 2019). On this account, the ‘manage‐manage/discipline‐discipline’ model can be construed, following Foucault (1977) and Deleuze (1992), as a dispositif , that is, a spatial and temporal arrangement of elements with the power to organize social identities and structural relations.…”