All Outputs (9)

Joining the dots? Special education and alternative provision (2024)
Journal Article
Tomlinson, S., & Johnston, C. (2024). Joining the dots? Special education and alternative provision. FORUM, 66(1), 91-99. https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2024.66.1.09

The English mass state education system, developing over 150 years, has created subsystems for children and young people who had difficulty in functioning at or beyond 'mainstream' schooling, or whose behaviour was deemed inappropriate. While many de... Read More about Joining the dots? Special education and alternative provision.

Outcomes beyond evaluation: The impetus and measure of relationships within alternative provisions (2023)
Journal Article
Johnston, C., & Nolty, T. (2023). Outcomes beyond evaluation: The impetus and measure of relationships within alternative provisions. Youth, 3(4), 1183-1193. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth3040075

In the context of rising interest in Alternative Provisions (APs) amongst policymakers and researchers in England, this article examines social capital and accountability in this ‘new’ field of enquiry. APs stress the value of supportive relationship... Read More about Outcomes beyond evaluation: The impetus and measure of relationships within alternative provisions.

Other lives: Relationships of young disabled men on the margins of alternative provision (2023)
Journal Article
Johnston, C., & Bradford, S. (in press). Other lives: Relationships of young disabled men on the margins of alternative provision. Disability and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2209278

This article draws on a qualitative data analysis of the experiences of a small group of so-called ‘hard-to-reach’ disabled young men in Alternative Provisions (APs). Supporting young people has largely focused on the use of professional intervention... Read More about Other lives: Relationships of young disabled men on the margins of alternative provision.

‘Where are all the men?’ Working-class male students and care-based degrees (2021)
Journal Article
Johnston, C., & Bradford, S. (2022). ‘Where are all the men?’ Working-class male students and care-based degrees. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 46(6), 753-765. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2021.2002283

This article draws on data from a small qualitative study of men on care-based degree pathways in one university in England. There is little research that specifically considers the experiences of working-class men on these courses. The article explo... Read More about ‘Where are all the men?’ Working-class male students and care-based degrees.

Dis/locating Imagined Futures: The disabled habitus and young disabled people in alternative provision (2020)
Journal Article
Johnston, C. (2020). Dis/locating Imagined Futures: The disabled habitus and young disabled people in alternative provision. People, Place and Policy, 14(2), 173-186. https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2020.2838594845

This article considers the disabled habitus and a small group of young disabled people who are attending an Alternative Provision (AP), within one English Further Education College. The aim of this article is to understand the significance of the bod... Read More about Dis/locating Imagined Futures: The disabled habitus and young disabled people in alternative provision.

Steven Roberts: Young working-class men in transition (2020)
Journal Article
Johnston, C. (2020). Steven Roberts: Young working-class men in transition. Journal of applied youth studies, 3(1), 99-101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-020-00007-3

Drawing on the experiences of young working-class men in transition, this insightful book portrays and discusses the changing world of masculinities within the South-East of England. The book raises questions and contests existing discourses, in rega... Read More about Steven Roberts: Young working-class men in transition.

Alternative spaces of failure. Disabled ‘bad boys’ in alternative further education provision (2019)
Journal Article
Johnston, C., & Bradford, S. (2019). Alternative spaces of failure. Disabled ‘bad boys’ in alternative further education provision. Disability and Society, 34(9-10), 1548-1572. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2019.1601070

This article draws from an ethnographic study of a group of school-aged disabled white working-class and self-proclaimed ‘bad boys’ in one Alternative Provision (AP) in an English further education college. These young disabled students’ disabilities... Read More about Alternative spaces of failure. Disabled ‘bad boys’ in alternative further education provision.

Playwork goes to school: Professional (mis)recognition and playwork practice in primary school (2017)
Journal Article
Cullen, F., & Johnston, C. (2018). Playwork goes to school: Professional (mis)recognition and playwork practice in primary school. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 26(3), 467-484. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2017.1421569

The article considers some of the key contemporary challenges facing playwork professionals in England when working in interagency and inter-professional contexts, specifically in English primary schools. This paper is based on a small-scale qualitat... Read More about Playwork goes to school: Professional (mis)recognition and playwork practice in primary school.

Unintended volunteers: The volunteering pathways of working class young people in community sport (2016)
Journal Article
Bradford, S., Hills, L., & Johnston, C. (2016). Unintended volunteers: The volunteering pathways of working class young people in community sport. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 8(2), 231-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2016.1161654

Sport has become a major setting for youth volunteering in the UK. Volunteering has become understood as a means of enhancing responsible citizenship and of adding various capitals to young people’s identities. Much research on young people’s volunte... Read More about Unintended volunteers: The volunteering pathways of working class young people in community sport.