1st Edition

Student Voice, Behaviour, and Resistance in the Classroom Environment Lessons from Disruptive and Disaffected School Children

By Thomas Ralph Copyright 2024
250 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This novel volume investigates the motivations behind disruptive pupil behaviour and offers practical guidance through discussion of a novel theoretical framework that explores how students perceive schooling, uncovering what their behaviour can tell us about how to adjust the school environment. Drawing on cutting-edge research and internationally relevant themes, chapters argue that... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Power, Resistance and Voice  3. Place and its Investigation  4. Space and Place in School  5. Creating Places of Resistance  6. Movement and Barriers to Movement in School  7. Disaffected Young People, Relationships with School Staff and Student Voice  8. Unconventional Relationships and Trust  9. The Limitations of Democratic Student Voice Structures  10. Vocational Education, Imagined Futures and Cruel Optimism  11. The Nature of Schoolwork and its Relationship to Identity and Resistance  12. A Compartmentalised Experience of School  13. Resistance is not Futile

Biography

Thomas Ralph is Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Exeter, UK