Re-Engaging Young People with Education: The Steps After Disengagement and Exclusion

by Simon Edwards

Book Overview

This book examines how young people can be re-engaged with schooling and their own learning beyond the school gates. Despite attempts by successive UK governments to promote engagement with education, there has been a substantial increase in formal and informal exclusions from secondary schools, particularly of underperforming students who come from low income families. The book builds on an ethnographic study carried out in a youth centre based on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030074668
• ISBN13: 9783030074661
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"