‘Everybody's a Nobody in School’: Excluded Students’Perceptions of the Threats to Autonomy in the English Secondary School

Young

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 309-321

  Williamson, Iain ^a   Cullingford, Cedric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adolescence; alienation; autonomy; education; exclusion; self concept; young offenders

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646935601     PISSN: 11033088     EISSN: 17413222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/11033088030114007     Document Type: Article

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