Atmospheres, spaces and job crafting: home visits in alternative provision
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Neglected in policy and the public consciousness, Alternative Provision is the expanding putty of the education sector, working within the gaps left by other agencies to re-engage children. Yet to engage children, Alternative Provision must first engage families and home visits are crucial to this process. Often triggered by absences or safeguarding concerns, homes visits are inherently risky both to the safety of practitioners but also to the fragile trust that is built with families. Rather than being purely objective practices, home visits are deeply embodied, sensuous experiences: from the apprehension and neighbour-scrutiny of the doorstep to inside homes that are sometimes sealed, sometimes permeable, practitioners engage in ‘way-finding’ through room and histories, spaces of affective atmospheres made and unmade, crafted and destroyed through the interaction of people, artefacts and light. And here, improvising, practitioners craft their jobs as equally as they craft engagement.Citation
Page, D. (2021) Atmospheres, spaces and job crafting: home visits in alternative provision. Research Papers in Education, DOI: 10.1080/02671522.2021.1961292Publisher
Informa UK LimitedJournal
Research Papers in EducationAdditional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02671522.2021.1961292Type
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© 2021 The Author. Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2021.1961292ISSN
0267-1522EISSN
1470-1146ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/02671522.2021.1961292
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