Diagnosing difference in schools: from challenging behaviour to mental disorder
Public lecture by Professor Julie Allan, Head of School of Education, the University of Birmingham, UK.
This lecture will consider the increasing rates of diagnosis of mental disorder among children and young people across the globe. The heightened risk of diagnosis associated with race, class and gender will be examined together with the role of education and welfare professionals in validating, but also potentially challenging, the inevitability of diagnosis.
Suggested Readings
- Allan, J and Harwood, V (2014) Medicus interruptus in the behaviour of children in disadvantaged contexts in Scotland, British Journal of Sociology of Education 35(3), p.413-431
- Allan, J and Youdell, D (2017) Ghostings, materialisations and flows in Britain's special educational needs and disability assemblage Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 38 (1), p70-82.
Julie Allan is Professor of Equity and Inclusion and Head of the School of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK, and is invited by the research group The History and Sociology of Welfare Work, Section of Education at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication.
Please contact Bjørn Hamre for further information
