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dc.contributor.authorAtweh, Bill
dc.contributor.authorCavanagh, Rob
dc.contributor.authorBland, D.
dc.contributor.authorCarrington, S.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T15:38:51Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T15:38:51Z
dc.date.created2011-04-07T20:01:20Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationAtweh, Bill and Cavanagh, Rob and Bland, Derek and Carrington, Susan. 2008. School disengagement: Its constructions, investigation and management, in Jeffery, Peter L. (ed), AARE 2007 - International Education Research Conference, Nov 25 2007. Fremantle, WA: AARE.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48331
dc.description.abstract

School disengagement, and hence its remediation can be constructed byfocusing on either side of the individual/social debate. Much research intosocial and academic factors associated with students at risk places theindividual student (or subgroups of students) as the focus of the problem andleads into remedial activities done to or on the student(s). Often students arepassive recipients of the activities that tend to reinforce their alienation andlack of agency and reinforce the very regimes that alienate them in the firstplace. Alternatively, disengagement can be constructed as a totally socialproblem of exclusion or as a ?political resistance? by students. While suchunderstanding avoids the trap of blaming the victim, students in this case, itraises the possibility of shifting the blame to the system and its institutionsrather than providing a solution to the problem affecting both the student andthe system. This paper argues for an approach to conceptualise disengagementas discursive interaction between the individual and the social. It also discussesmethodologies for research and action that are based on this discursiveinteraction between the social and the individual.

dc.publisherAARE
dc.relation.urihttp://www.aare.edu.au/publications-database.php/268/school-disengagement-its-constructions-investigation-and-management
dc.subjectBill Atweh
dc.subjectschools
dc.subjectdisengagment
dc.subjecteducation
dc.subjectengagement
dc.titleSchool disengagement: Its constructions, investigation and management
dc.typeConference Paper
dcterms.source.issn1324-9339
dcterms.source.titleProceedings of the 2007 International Education Research Conference - AARE
dcterms.source.seriesProceedings of the 2007 International Education Research Conference - AARE
dcterms.source.conferenceAARE 2007 Fremantle - International Education Research Conference
dcterms.source.conference-start-dateNov 25 2007
dcterms.source.conferencelocationFremantle, WA
dcterms.source.placeonline & CD-ROM
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Copyright © 2008 Australian Association for Research in Education.

curtin.departmentScience and Mathematics Education Centre (Research Institute)
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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