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Title: Detaining the usual suspects: charting the use of segregated settings in New South Wales government schools, Australia
Related: Contemporary issues in early childhood, Vol. 11, Issue 3, (2010), p.234-248
DOI: 10.2304/ciec.2010.11.3.234
Publisher: Symposium Journals
Date: 2010
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 130100 Education Systems
Author/Creator: Graham, Linda J
Author/Creator: Sweller, Naomi
Author/Creator: Van Bergen, Penny
Description: This article examines the increase in segregated placements in the New South Wales government school sector. Using disaggregated enrolment data, it points to the growing over-representation of boys in special schools and classes, particularly those of a certain age in certain support categories. In the discussion that follows, the authors question the role of special education in the development of new and additional forms of being `at risk'. In effect, they invert the traditional concept by asking: who is at risk of what? In focusing on the containment of risk, are modern practices of diagnosis and segregation perpetuating risks that already disproportionately affect certain groups of individuals? Do these perceptions of and responses to risk in local schools now place these students at greater personal risk of school failure and a future marked by social exclusion? And, finally, is that risk worth the cost?
Description: 15 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 130100 Education Systems
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Centre for Research on Social Inclusion
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Education
Organisation: Macquarie University. Institute of Early Childhood
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Psychology

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/134469
Identifier: ISSN:1463-9491
Identifier: mq-rm-2009011544
Language: eng
Rights: Copyright the Publisher [2010]. The original article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2010.11.3.234. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author and according to publisher conditions. For further reproduction rights please contact the publisher at http://www.symposium-journals.co.uk/.
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