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Direct linkNeves, Tiago; Pereira, Maria Joao; Nata, Gil – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2012
Inequality has long been a central topic in the social sciences. The same holds true with regard to sociological research on education. In this paper we argue that, due to fairly recent developments in the managerialisation and marketisation of the educational field, often associated with the rise of neoliberalism, the topic of inequality gains…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Global Approach, Neoliberalism, Higher Education
Doyle, Jim – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2012
The author first recognised the transformational power of education when he arrived at university. His career has included over 10 years as a mainstream principal, 7 as executive director of an agency that included being principal of a Special Assistance School, and a 5 year period in between in a leadership role in a community welfare…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Personnel, Career Development, Special Schools
Download full textRutland, Adam; Abrams, Dominic; Cameron, Lindsey – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2007
Social exclusion is a serious social problem. Not "fitting in" at school may be an experience that can scar children psychologically for life. This is unsurprising since being part of the "in crowd" (i.e. accepted in-group members) is extremely important to children and adolescents. Being rejected by one's peers can cause an increase in antisocial…
Descriptors: Children, Family Relationship, Peer Groups, Intergroup Relations
Beresford, Quentin – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2004
Australian governments at both federal and state levels have collaborated for the past 15 years to lift Indigenous students from their position as the nation's most educationally disadvantaged group. The introduction in 1989 of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Plan was accompanied by an ambitious target of achieving…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Indigenous Populations, Equal Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Lloyd, Gwynedd – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2003
In this paper, the author argues for a more humanistic approach to children and young people who face difficulties in their personal and social lives. Increasingly, young people in the developed world who are troubled or troublesome in school or in their neighbourhoods are categorised and labelled in terms of psychiatric disorder. The number of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Social Influences, Social Control
Burgess, Elias – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2003
In this article, an eighth grader talks about his experiences at school and shares his views about middle-school education. This 13-year-old does not know what exactly started the war, but what he knows is that the school kids of America aren't learning much that is new--and they don't know what to believe. He knows that somewhere out there, the…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Student Experience, Phenomenology, Middle School Students
