ABSTRACT

Prevention of school exclusion is a major UK policy concern in the COVID-19 era of economic uncertainty, speculation about the possible futures for social cohesion, and alarming reports about the prevalence of children’s mental health difficulties and eroded sense of well-being and security. This Special Issue on school exclusion is drawn from the work of the multi-disciplinary and cross-jurisdictional research group Excluded Lives, founded in Oxford in 2014 and now involving the universities of Cardiff, Edinburgh, Oxford, Queen’s Belfast and the LSE. It adopts a broad view of exclusion including those who are excluded legally and illegally and those who go missing from school. The papers in this special issue represent perspectives on school exclusion across the four UK jurisdictions and from different disciplinary perspectives.

摘要

在经济不确定性的COVID-19时代，防止学校排斥是英国的主要政策关注，对社会凝聚力的未来前景的猜测，以及关于儿童心理健康问题的普遍性以及幸福感和安全感受到侵蚀的令人震惊的报道。这份关于学校排斥的特刊摘自2014年在牛津成立的跨学科和跨辖区研究小组Excluded Lives的工作，目前涉及加的夫，爱丁堡，牛津，贝尔法斯特皇后大学和伦敦政治经济学院。它采用了广泛的排斥观念，包括合法和非法被排斥的人以及失学的人。本期特刊中的论文代表了英国四个司法管辖区对学校排斥的观点，以及不同学科的观点。