Reference List

This is an abridged version of my PhD reference list relating to references I have noted on this blog page.  For further references please contact me directly via my university email.


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Biesta, G., (2012).  What is educational improvement? And what has research got to do with it?  Paper presented at the annual conference of the Scottish Educational Researach Association (SERA): Improving Education through Research.  Ayr, 21-23 November 2012.

Bond, L.; Butler, H.; Thomas, L.; Carlin, J.; Glover, S.; Bowes, G. & Patton, G. (2007).  Social and school connectedness in early secondary school as predictors of late teenage substance use, mental health, and academic outcomes.  Journal of Adolescent Health, 40, p357

Bradbury, S. (2004).  The use of pastoral support programmes within schools.  Educational Psychology in Practice, 20 (4), p303-318

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Brown, K. & Fletcher, A. (2002). Disaffection or Disruptive Engagement?  A Collaborative Inquiry into Pupils’ Behaviour and their Perceptions of their Learning in Modern Language Lessons. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 10(2), 169-192.

Charlton, T.; Panting, C. & Willis, H. (2004).  Targeting exclusion, disaffection and truancy in secondary schools.  Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 9 (4), p261-275

Cole, T.; Daniels, H. & Visser, J. (2003). Patterns of Provision for Pupils with Behavioural Difficulties in England: a study of government statistics and behaviour support plan data.  Oxford Review of Education, 29 (2), p187-205.

Covell, C., (2010).  School engagement and rights-respecting schools.  Cambridge Journal of Education, 40 (1), p39-51

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Department for Education, (2009).  Revised statutory guidance for local authorities in England to identify children not receiving a suitable education.  Retrieved March 2013 from https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderingDownload/Statutory-LA-Guide-09.pdf

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Gabb, S., (2005).  Home schooling: a British perspective in S. B. Cooper (ed.),  Home Schooling in Full View: A Reader, pp. 199–228. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

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Gillies, V. & Robinson, Y. (2012).  ‘Including’ while excluding: race, class
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Giroux, (2001).  Theory and resistance in education: towards a pedagogy for the opposition.  Bergin & Garvey.

Gordon, A. (2001).  School exlusions in England: children’s voices and adult solutions?  Educational Studies, 21 (1), p69-85 

Guldberg, H., (2009).  Reclaiming childhood: freedom and play in an age of fear.  Routledge.

Hallam, S. (2007).  Evaluation of behavioural management in schools: a review of the behaviour improvement programme and the role of behaviour and education support teams.  Child and Adoloescent Mental Health, 12 (3), p106-112

Hayden, C. & Blaya, C. (2005).  Children on the margins.  Policy Studies, 26 (1), p67-83

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Hilton, Z., (2006).  Disaffection and school exclusion: why are inclusion policies still not working in Scotland?  Research Papers in Education, 21 (3), p295-314.

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Howe, L., (1998).  Scrounger, worker, beggarman, cheat: the dynamics of unemployment and the politics of resistance in Belfast.  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 4 (3), p531-550

Humphrey, N., Charlton, J.P. & Newton, I., (2004).  The developmental roots of disaffection.  Educational Psychology, 24 (5), p 579-594.

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Lord, P. & Jones, M., (2006).  Pupils’ experiences and perspectives of the national curriculum and assessment: final report for the research review.  National Foundation for Educational Research.  Slough, Berkshire.

Nardi, E. & Steward, S. (2000).   The invisible child in the mathematics classroom: a preliminary report on quiet disaffection.  Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 20 (3).

Nardi, E. & Steward, S. (2003).   Is mathematics T.I.R.E.D?  A profile of quiet disaffection in the secondary mathematics classroom.  British Educational Research Journal, 29 (3), p345-367

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Solomon, Y. & Rogers, C., (2001).  Motivational patterns in disaffected school students: insights from pupil referral unit clients.  British Educational Research Journal, 27 (3), p331-346

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Taylor, L. A. & Petrie, A. J., (2000).  Home education in Europe and recent U.K. research.  Peabody Journal of Education, 75, (1&2), 49-70.

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Vulliamy, G. & Webb, R. (2003).  Reducing school exclusions: an evaluation of a multi-site development project.  Oxford Review of Education, 29 (1), p33-49

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