 Out of Place: Public Policy and the Emerging Truancyreviewed by Etta Kralovec Mooser - 1990  Title: Out of Place: Public Policy and the Emerging TruancyAuthor(s): Fiona M Paterson Publisher: John Wiley, New York ISBN: 1850005117, Pages: , Year: Search for book at Amazon.com Paterson challenges our taken-for-granted assumptions about schooling and those who choose to absent themselves from it. Through an in-depth analysis of nineteenth-century Scottish public policy on schools, Paterson develops her argument that our beliefs about truancy are social constructs that presuppose class-biased notions of normality. This Foucaultian analysis enables her to explore the relationship between power and knowledge as it relates to the construction of the institutionalized practices from which truancy emerges. Paterson’s work on truancy provides a historical perspective that complements research done in the United States on truancy and the related problems of dropouts. Paterson’s work informs this body of scholarship by suggesting that some of the slippery issues, such as the definitional problems that plague dropout research, are really conceptual problems. This is in line with attempts in the United States to develop the term push-outs as an alternative to dropouts. Additionally, growing attention by U.S. scholars to... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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