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Peer reviewedSlee, Roger; Cook, Sandy – Urban Review, 1994
Examines the way in which integration or mainstreaming policies in Australia have been subverted by labeling disruptive young people as defective and by deploying the practices and culture of disability as a means of imposing social control on such students. Suggestions are given for reframing the issue of school failure as interactional rather…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Children
Direct linkLloyd, 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
