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Teaching Alternative and Flexible Education Settings
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Teaching Alternative and Flexible Education Settings
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Teaching Alternative and Flexible Education Settings
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Several common threads run through the chapters in this book, highlighting core aspects of the work of staff in these settings:
• A strong sense of commitment to working with and for young people from marginalised backgrounds.
• Validation of the relational and emotional nature of education, as a fundamentally people-centred enterprise.
• The importance of explicit attention to critical reflection on staff members’ own positionality, assumptions and identity.
• Collegiality as a crucially affirming part of school culture for staff.
These elements are pertinent to educational settings everywhere. The chapters in this book serve as a reminder of what really ‘counts’ for our young people and their schooling.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of
.