Seminar: Schools for all? Young people's experiences of alienation in the English secondary school system
| Dates: | 13 June 2023 |
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| Times: | 11:00 - 12:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Environment, Education and Development |
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| Who is it for: | University staff |
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| Speaker: | Sait Bayrakdar |
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Young people's experiences of education are not universally positive. Many young people feel anxious, out of place and unwelcome at school.
In this talk, Sait Bayrakdar discusses young people's experiences of and feelings towards schools. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data from the ESRC-funded Young Lives Young Futures project, the talk will first introduce the findings from its recent 'Schools for All?' report and then move onto an analysis of young people's attitudes towards school and how social and economic background may interact with their attitudes.
The results show that many young people feel unsupported at school. This is most common among young people with SEND or from backgrounds of socioeconomic disadvantage. Many young people from minority backgrounds report high levels of unfair treatment in schools. On the other hand, young people who had left mainstream school for alternative education provision or vocational education and training were mostly thriving in these different educational settings, often for the first time.
Based on the accounts of young people and aggregate results from the survey data, the talk calls for new approaches to the design of school curricula and accountability processes that are based on a broader conception of the purposes of - and what it means to be successful in - education.
Join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/97256465568
Speaker
Sait Bayrakdar
Biography: Sait Bayrakdar is a Research Associate in the School of Education, Communication and Society, King's College London, UK. He is a co-investigator of the ESRC-funded "Opportunity, equality and agency in England's new VET landscape: a longitudinal study of post-16 transitions" project. His research interests include social inequalities, education, youth transitions, migration and intersectionality.
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