Dr Anna Carlile
GET UPDATES FROM Dr Anna Carlile
 
Dr Anna Carlile, Lecturer in Inclusive Education, Head of Secondary Partnerships, Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Anna has responsibility for managing Goldsmiths’ partnership with the secondary schools in which PGCE students have their school experience placements, and coordinates the Secondary PGCE GPS programme. She also lectures at all levels within the department, including on the PGCE and the BA in Education, Culture and Society.

Anna's research has been around institutional prejudice and the effects of permanent exclusion from school on young people, families and professionals, and more recently, through the Illuminate Student Researchers Project. This work seeks to develop a deep model of student voice and embed it meaningfully into school governance.

Blog Entries by Dr Anna Carlile

School Exclusion Data Tells us More About Schools Than About Children

(10) Comments | Posted 30 July 2012 | (00:00)

There needs to be a louder public conversation about the ways in which the media perpetuates political myths about children and young people. 'Problem families' are currently a common target; Louise Casey, head of the government's troubled families unit, was reported in the Telegraph recently as suggesting that '(m)others in...

Read Post

School Exclusions Take Responsibility for Positive Change Away From the School

(2) Comments | Posted 23 March 2012 | (09:30)

Dr Maggie Atkinson, the Children's Commissioner for England, was reported in The Huffington Post (19 March 2012) as saying that students should no longer be excluded for "minor infringements" such as wearing jewellery or incorrect school uniform, and that exclusions should only be implemented to protect safety and learning. This...

Read Post