Inequality, Poverty, Education [electronic resource] : A Political Economy of School Exclusion /
Ashurst, F.author.
This book challenges the practice of exclusion by uncovering its roots in 19th century social and educational policy targeting poor children. Revealing a hidden history of exclusion, this analysis exposes the connections between the state, the education system and social policy, and opens a space for radical alternatives.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Elements for a Political Economy of Exclusion; The problem of exclusion; Genealogy and governmentality: elements for a counter-history of exclusion; Reform and the political economy of exclusion; 2 Pauperism, Delinquency and Learning to Labour; Threats and victims; Threats; Victims; The case of Frances Colpit: 1819-1829; Conclusion; 3 Labour, Poverty and the Export of Destitute Children As ''Waste''; The traffic in children; The Children''s Friend Society 1830-1840: from charity to trade; The Hackney kidnappers: parish, parents and children
The children speakLegitimating the ''traffic'' in children; Conclusion: legalising exclusion and the governmentalisation of pauperism; 4 Security, Population and the New Management of the Poor; Blaming the poor; Malthusian realism, Miles and moral entrepreneurship; The ''moral entrepreneur'' and the formation of policy; 5 Disciplining and Punishment: The New Exclusionary Regime Emerges; The new prisons: Parkhurst, The Penitentiary Model and a clash of values; Parkhurst: the reality of the new regime; 6 Ragged Schools, Child-Centred Education and the Struggle for Egalitarian Politics
Including the poor: Carpenter, Unitarianism and alternative schoolsThe project of reform through education; Concluding remarks: punishing, normalising and biopolitics; 7 Mettray: Normalisation or Rescue?; Demetz'' Mettray: healing, holding, guiding, teaching; Foucault''s Mettray: normalisation through the Carceral; 8 The Institutionalisation of Exclusion within Education; Reconceptualising the pauper child; Education as ''Remedy'' for the ''Disease of Pauperism''; Prevention and correction: industrial and reformatory schools; Conclusion
9 ''No More Excuses'': Neoliberalism and the New ExclusionMisspent youth and the new criminalisation; Context: the present; No More Excuses; Conclusion; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book challenges the practice of exclusion by uncovering its roots in 19th century social and educational policy targeting poor children. Revealing a hidden history of exclusion, this analysis exposes the connections between the state, the education system and social policy, and opens a space for radical alternatives.
Education and state.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Education Policy.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.