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The Issue of Student Disengagement and Exclusion

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For increasing numbers of young people transition into secondary school is unsuccessful, resulting in disaffection and academic failure.

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    Units I have worked in and managed have offered a reduced academic curriculum focusing on Maths, English and ICT but extend an alternative curriculum to develop employability and personal development skills through work placements and 1-2-1 mentoring sessions. This approach extended to an inclusion support team I worked with for a local authority in Sussex.

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    West Sussex Youth Service colleagues and I offered alternative programmes and accreditation through ASDAN, The Princes Trust and Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.

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    Forest, Steiner, Montessori and Free schools are attended by choice as an alternative to mainstream schooling and therefore do not fall within the remit of this book.

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    Youth centre on secondary school site, Special Emotional Behavioural Difficulty (EBD) School, Alternative curriculum unit, Brighton LA, Mainstream secondary schools in London, Brighton and Portsmouth.

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    Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network.

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    Certificate of Personal Effectiveness.

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    This is also similar to Vygotsky’s (1978) more knowledgeable other.

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    For example Forest, Steiner, Montessori and Free schools.

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    Certificate of Personal Effectiveness. This programme is awarded at GCSE level for which these students were learning the following key skills: Teamwork, Improving your own learning, Problem solving, Research and Discussion.

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Edwards, S. (2018). The Issue of Student Disengagement and Exclusion. In: Re-Engaging Young People with Education . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98201-4_1

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