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McIntyre-Bhatty, Karen – Educational Review, 2008
This paper suggests that rather than criminalising or pathologising truancy as a "deviant" behaviour in need of either treatment or punishment, truancy should be considered as a rational enactment of dissatisfaction with State educational provision. It should be of little surprise that attempts to "solve" the truancy…
Descriptors: Truancy, Home Schooling, Relevance (Education), Educational Environment