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Done, Elizabeth J.; Andrews, Mandy J. – Journal of Education Policy, 2020
It is almost two decades since a concept of inclusion as selective segregation was proposed as an alternative to the concept of full inclusion and inclusive education was reconfigured as providing children with varied educational settings in order to meet their needs. A version of this model of inclusive education subsequently gained political…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Special Education
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Done, Elizabeth J.; Murphy, Mike – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2018
This paper critically examines competing demands placed on teachers, with reference to recent inclusion policy in England and Australia. The authors draw on Michael Foucault's analysis of power, neoliberalism(s) and biopolitics to explore the ways in which teachers are "responsibilised" into negotiating and fulfilling demands related to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Teacher Responsibility, Neoliberalism
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Done, Elizabeth J.; Knowler, Helen – Educational Review, 2022
In this paper, the concepts of fabrication, subjectivation and performativity are mobilised in an analysis of varied exclusionary practices in England's schools with particular reference to "off-rolling", defined by the national school inspectorate as the illegal removal of a student from a school roll in order to enhance academic…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Principals, Inclusion, Foreign Countries
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Done, Elizabeth J.; Knowler, Helen – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
'Off-rolling' is widely defined as the illegal removal of students from a school roll, unlike permanent exclusion, which involves sanctioned formal procedures. It is a practice that brings very different logics, political agendas, governmental imperatives and the associated matter of school leader professional identity into sharp relief. Deviant…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Political Attitudes, Instructional Leadership, Educational Philosophy
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Done, Elizabeth J. – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2022
This paper will explore the ways in which behaviour features in the accounts of 'off rolling' processes in schools in England volunteered by participants -- senior school leaders, SENCos and parents, in an ongoing multi-stranded research project. In addition to analysing these accounts, this paper draws on contextual features and concepts such as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Student Behavior, Access to Education
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Done, Elizabeth J.; Murphy, Mike; Knowler, Helen – Journal of Education Policy, 2015
Recent changes to policy directives now require newly appointed Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCOs) in UK mainstream schools to be qualified teachers. Training and accreditation through a nationally approved postgraduate award is now mandatory. Concepts drawn from poststructuralist biopolitics and critiques of neoliberal educational…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Special Needs Students, Action Research, Neoliberalism
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Done, Elizabeth J.; Knowler, Helen – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
This article reports an unprecedented exploratory small-scale investigation of the views of senior school leaders in southwest England relating to 'off-rolling' (illegal exclusionary practices). 'Off-rolling' is conceptualised as a policy technology, however, the conceptual framework used in data analysis derives from Foucault's treatment of power…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Educational Practices, Power Structure
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Done, Elizabeth J.; Knowler, Helen; Armstrong, David – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2021
This paper provides an outline of, and rationale for, an international research project that will identify commonalities and disparities in illegal school exclusionary practices in Australia and England. The aims here are to situate such practices within a global context and to map the events and processes through which children and young people,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Educational Practices
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Done, Elizabeth J.; Knowler, Helen – British Journal of Special Education, 2021
A small-scale study investigated the role of SENCos in England immediately prior to, during and following the first closure of schools nationally in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A mixed-methods research strategy comprising semi-structured interviews and a national online survey generated data related to SENCos' involvement in strategic…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Leadership Role, Coordinators, Special Education
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Done, Elizabeth J.; Knowler, Helen; Warnes, Eleanor; Pickett-Jones, Beverley – Support for Learning, 2021
This think piece argues for a novel qualitative methodology that permits social justice researchers, including National Award for Special Educational Needs Coordination students, to highlight the profound affects of exclusionary school practices for parents of children with SEN and/or disabilities (SEND). Such children are proportionately effected…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Inclusion, Educational Practices, Students with Disabilities
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Warnes, Eleanor; Done, Elizabeth J.; Knowler, Helen – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2022
A survey-based investigation of teachers' concerns was conducted the following adaptation of Sharma and Desai's 'Concerns about Integrated Education (CIE) Scale' two decades ago. The terminology was adjusted and 'integrated' became 'inclusive', and 'Special Educational Needs and/or Disability (SEND)' replaced 'disability' in a novel 'Concerns…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Inclusion, Students with Disabilities
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Potter, Alice E.; Knowler, Helen; Done, Elizabeth J. – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2022
This article seeks to illustrate the usefulness to teacher educators of small-scale qualitative social media content analysis by reporting a study of online microblogs (tweets) posted by senior school leaders' relating to 'off rolling' (practices that bypass legal permanent exclusion procedures in English mainstream schools). The outlined method…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teacher Attitudes, Inclusion, Computer Software
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Murphy, Mike; Done, Elizabeth J. – Gender and Education, 2015
This paper brings together themes from the varied texts of Gilles Deleuze in outlining a Deleuzo-feminist ethics that speaks to contemporary debates in education. Drawing on Deleuze's (1988) engagement with Spinozan ethics, Foucault's (1987) "practice of freedom", the Nietzschean "doctrine of judgment" and "system of…
Descriptors: Feminism, Ethics, Empowerment, Postmodernism