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Ofsted (Ofsted, 2013; see also Weale, 2014), the government regulator of standards in
education for England, identified a link between student performance and ‘deprived coastal
towns’, with a realisation that these areas have ‘felt little impact from national initiatives
designed to drive up the standards for the poorest children’ (Ofsted, 2013). Having
recognised locality as factor in school performance in research undertaken on coastal
academies in 2010 (a longitudinal study of one coastal secondary (school age 11-18)
academy) extensions to the research resulted in a comparative analysis of six
underperforming coastal secondary schools that had converted to academy status by 2010
under the Labour Government’s academies agenda (realised through the Education Act of
2002) to support ‘nationally challenged’ schools in tackling educational inequality.
In our research we qualitatively examined the ways in which our coastal academies
approached the task of changing their predecessor schools’ culture of under-performance. All
six schools were located in coastal regions of high socio-economic disadvantage, including
high levels of unemployment, limited parental involvement in their children’s education and
low parental and young people’s aspirations. This paper identifies that behaviour is managed
on three levels in the coastal academies – school, classroom and individual (Swinson, 2010) –
through diverse and locally appropriate strategies. By putting student needs foremost these
‘first wave’ coastal academies managed and improved young peoples’ behaviour in the
classroom

Passy, Rowena

Plymouth Electronic Archive and Research Library

Changing student behaviour in schools located in areas of socioeconomic deprivation: findings from the 'coastal academies' research

Ovenden-Hope, Tanya

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Changing student behaviour in schools located in areas of socioeconomic deprivation: findings from the ‘coastal academies’ project

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Changing student behaviour in schools located in areas of socioeconomic deprivation: findings from the 'coastal academies' research

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