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Robinson, Janean; Smyth, John – Ethnography and Education, 2016
This paper invokes the voices of young people who had been separated from mainstream schooling because they were positioned as "disengaged" and "at risk of failing". The authors argue that streaming students out of schooling needs serious questioning as an escalating number of young people are framed as non-performers within a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropout Programs, Continuation Students, At Risk Students
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Smyth, John; McInerney, Peter – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2012
This paper examines the complex constellation of conditions that turn many young people into "exiles" from schooling. From the vantage point of young people, the paper traces out a profile of the conditions that need to be brought into existence for these young people to find a way back into learning. The paper argues that current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Environment, Quality of Life, Neoliberalism