‘Dropping Out’, Drifting Off, Being Excluded: Becoming Somebody Without School

By J. Smyth, R. Hattam. 2004

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Exploring the Contexts of Relationship Quality between Middle School Students and Teachers (2006, background): “…of students (including students in urban settings), at students who may feel alienated from the classroom context or who may be struggling to interact with teachers (Murdock, 1999; Nagle, 2001; Smyth & Hattam, 2004), and at students attending schools with different types of interpersonal cultures.”
‘When students have power’: student engagement, student voice, and the possibilities for school reform around ‘dropping out’ of school (2006, background): “Rather than blaming social structures or ‘blaming the victim’, we need to understand early school leaving in terms of the process that gets to be played out in the relationship between young people and schools (Smyth et al. 2004).”