Exclusions are a regular part of primary and secondary school life and there is much debate surrounding the effect that it has on those who are excluded.
It is thought by some that the behaviour that leads to a child being excluded is often part of a broader issue, which is largely a child’s life at home.
County Cllr Vali Patel agrees with this view point: “Some children come to school with all sorts of other problems from their home lives and they’re just not in a learning mood.”
A local government study has highlighted that children and young people who are not in education as a result of permanent exclusion are a greater risk of a lifetime of social exclusion.
Social exclusion was defined by the government as: “A shorthand term for what can happen when people or areas suffer from a combination of linked problems such as unemployment, poor skills, low incomes, unfair discrimination, poor housing, high crime, bad health and family breakdown”.
Dr Pamela Qualter, from the University of Central Lancashire, has conducted research in this area and agrees that there is a link between school and social exclusion, but says the link comes from behaviour that is learnt at home: “There is lots of research to say that talk about emotions in the home by mum and dad is really key to understanding about emotional relationships which help us to interact with each other.”
Dr Qualter said that those who are excluded from schools and those who are socially excluded lack these emotional skills, and she calls this Emotional Intelligence (EI). Deficient EI means that certain emotions that allow people to interact adequately with others are not present.
Dr Qualter discusses this theory further in the video.
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