Positive Alternatives to Exclusion

The problem of school exclusion is one of the major educational issues of our time, responsible for the loss of thousands of school days every year, with the numbers of children and young people barred from participation in our schools increasing annually. Positive Alternatives to Exclusion looks at what schools can do to build more harmonious communities and engage students - particularly those at risk of exclusion - more productively in all areas of school life. It describes the Positive Alternatives to School Exclusion Project, based at the School of Education, University of Cambridge. This was a multi-phase (primary, secondary, FE) empirical study of the thinking underlying what schools and colleges were currently doing to foster inclusion and to reduce and prevent exclusion. The research approach was based on an equal partnership between staff in mainstream schools/colleges and university staff. The book provides detailed case studies of the approaches and strategies being adopted in a variety of different settings, drawing on the perspectives of staff and pupils. It also identifies a number of different frameworks, drawn from the case studies, which can be used by practitioners working in other settings to support their own reflection and development work.Cooper, Paul is the author of 'Positive Alternatives to Exclusion' with ISBN 9780415197588 and ISBN 0415197589.