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Children missing from school systems: exploring divergent patterns of disengagement in the narrative accounts of parents, carers, children and young people.

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1/01/2005
<mark>Journal</mark>British Journal of Sociology of Education
Issue number1
Volume26
Number of pages15
Pages (from-to)105-119
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The aim of this study was to identify and re-present the experiences and views of a sample of children who have been 'missing' from education, and those of their parents/carers. Access to this hard to reach population has been possible as a result of an innovative interventionist tracking system, responding to pupil mobility, developed by the Education Authority in the fieldwork area. Semistructured interviews were conducted with parents/carers, children and young people with the aim of obtaining a demographic profile of families and eliciting a chronology of factors that participants saw as contributing to a child going missing from school systems. Three distinct life-course groups emerged from participants' accounts illustrating different degrees of disengagement from external systems. The authors conclude with a discussion of the different challenges each life-course group presents, for education policy and practice.

Bibliographic note

50% contribution RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Social Work and Social Policy & Administration