- How have SENCOs been involved in planning for offsite provision and for onsite provision for ‘vulnerable’ children during CV-19 lockdown conditions?
- How are SENCOs involved in SLT decision-making about post-COVID-19 provision?
- How are SENCOs working to prevent exclusion and off-rolling during COVID-19 lockdown conditions?
Studies
Parent study
Senior school leader study
Senior school leader Twitter post study
Conferences
- How do senior leaders and parents of children in mainstream secondary schools in England understand and explain the practice of off rolling?
- What are the challenges and dilemmas surrounding this practice for senior leaders and parents?
- What is the personal and professional impact on senior leaders and parents of involvement in cases that might be defined as off rolling?
- What do senior leaders and parents say about how the practice of off rolling might be avoided in England?
Investigators
Co-Investigators: Helen Knowler
Research Assistants: Alice Potter, Eleanor Warnes
References
Done, E.J. & Knowler, H.(2021) ‘Off-rolling’ and the art of visibility / invisibility: exploring senior leaders’ views of ‘strategic’ school exclusion in England. British Education Research Journal. Published online 4 March 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3709
Done, E.J., Knowler, H., Warnes, E. and Pickett-Jones, B. (2021) Think piece on parents, ‘off rolling’ and wavelength methodology: issues for SENCos. Support for Learning. Published online 2 February 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9604.12339
Clarke, A.L, & Done, E.J. (2021). Balancing pressures for Special Educational Needs Coordinators as managers, leaders and advocates in the emerging context of the COVID-19 pandemic. British Journal of Special Education. Published online 1 March 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8578.12353
Done, E.J., & Knowler, H. (2020). Exploring senior school leaders’ and parents’ & carers’ perspectives on illegal school exclusions or 'off rolling' in England. Paper presented at the European Conference of Education Research (online) 28th August 2020.
Done, E.J. & Knowler, H. (2020a) Painful invisibilities: Roll management or ‘off-rolling’ and professional identity. British Education Research Journal 46(3): 516-531.
Done, E.J. & Knowler, H. (2020b) A tension between rationalities: “off-rolling” as gaming and the implications for head teachers and the inclusion agenda. Educational Review, in press.
Done, E.J. (2019) Education governance and the responsibility to include: teachers as a site of discursive tension. In J. Allan, V. Harwood, C. Jørgensen (eds.) World Yearbook of Education 2020. London: Routledge.
Ofsted (2019) The annual report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills 2017 / 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2019, from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ofsted-annual-report-201718-education-childrens-services-and-skills
Done, E.J., & Murphy, M. (2018). The responsibilisation of teachers: A neoliberal solution to the problem of inclusion. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 39(1), 142-155. doi: 10.1080/01596306.2016.1243517
Machin, S. & Sandi, M. (2018) Autonomous schools and strategic pupil exclusion. Centre for Economic Performance, discussion paper no.1527, January 2018.
Done, E.J., Murphy, M., & Knowler, H. (2015). Mandatory accreditation for Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators: Biopolitics, neoliberal managerialism and the Deleuzo–Guattarian ‘war machine’. Journal of Education Policy, 30, 866-100. doi:10.1080/02680939.2014.905872
Done, E.J., Knowler, H., Pickett-Jones, B. & Warnes, E. (forthcoming) Think piece on parents, ‘off rolling’ and wavelength methodology: issues for SENCos. Support for Learning