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Barry Down; Anna Sullivan; Neil Tippett; Bruce Johnson; Jamie Manolev; Janean Robinson – Critical Studies in Education, 2024
This article reports on a critical policy analysis of discourses related to school exclusions. The management of problematic student behaviour is one of the intractable problems facing education systems today. Despite being ineffective, school suspensions and exclusions are commonly used in many countries as a discipline strategy to manage student…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Discipline Policy
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Higgins, Brian; Carey, Michael; Dunn, Peter – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2021
This mixed-methods study considers 'permanent expulsionary punishments' (PEP) from government schooling. Analysis considers the literature, available PEP data from two jurisdictions, and attitudinal data from Australian staff, in considering the contribution of policy, agency, and discourse (PAD) to the causes of PEP. It compares attitudes in a…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Expulsion, Foreign Countries, Discipline Policy
OECD Publishing, 2021
One of the goals of education systems is to equip all students, irrespective of their individual characteristics, with market-relevant skills. Poor or inadequate skills limit access to better-paying and more rewarding jobs and, ultimately, to better living and health conditions, and higher social and political participation. Yet, inequalities in…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Gender Differences, Reading Achievement, Discipline Policy