This post is my response to the 2018 article by Amelia Paget and colleagues. Their work uses data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) discussed in an earlier post. ALSPAC recruited around fourteen and half thousand pregnant women in 1990/1991 and tracked their children through their school years and is continuing to track them in …
January 2021 archive
Jan 17
Mental Health and Behaviour in Schools – DFE 2018
This week, I was asked to speak on the subject of social emotional and mental health (SEMH) to a group of SENCOs and professionals working with young people in schools, As usual, I began by referring them to the DFE’s ‘Behaviour and Mental Health in Schools’. This post is a response to my re-reading of …
Jan 10
Child and adolescent mental health trajectories in relation to exclusion from school from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children – Tejerina-Arreal et al.
This post is my response the 2020 open access article by Tejarina-Arreal et al. ‘Child and adolescent mental health trajectories in relation to exclusion from school from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children‘ which appeared in the journal Child and Adolescent Mental Health. I argue that it is time to take the lessons of children excluded …
Jan 02
Children’s moral rights and UK school exclusions – Tillson & Oxley 2020
This post is a response to John Tillson and Laura Oxley’s (2020) article ‘Children’s moral rights and UK school exclusions’ which appeared in the journal Theory and Research in Education. I argue that an education system in which the only way that vulnerable children can access the support the need is through a damaging exclusion process cannot align with the …
Jan 01
Good education in an age of measurement – Gert Biesta
This is my response to Gert Biesta’s paper ‘Good Education in an age of measurement’. It was one of the first that I was introduced to on starting my doctoral studies at MMU and it stuck with me throughout. It opened up a new way of thinking. He describes the purpose of education as qualification, socialisation …
Jan 01
Giving the ‘nowheres’ a ‘somewhere’ – David Goodhart
This post is my response to David Goodhart’s book: The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics. Goodhart’s contention is that we are split into two main groups. The ‘Anywheres’ are citizens of the world, accept globalisation as a force for good and make up about 25% of the UK. The ‘Somewheres’ …
