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The Educationalization of Student Emotional and Behavioral Health

Alternative Truth

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  1. Teresa L. Sullivan

    1. Plymouth, MA, USA

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  • Challenges the foundational principles related to the educationalization of emotional health and wellness of students
  • Explores idea that that the recent educationalizing of behavioral health is a microcosm of the educationalizaton of social problems theorized by David Labaree
  • Demonstrates how the principles of the social contract are mired in increasing expectations and responsibilities for social-emotional well-being pushed onto schools

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Deflecting and Blaming

    • Teresa L. Sullivan
    Pages 1-12

  3. Schools Can Fix It

    • Teresa L. Sullivan
    Pages 13-29

  4. The Swindle of Education Reform

    • Teresa L. Sullivan
    Pages 31-47

  5. Schools Stretching the Safety Net

    • Teresa L. Sullivan
    Pages 49-70

  6. Premise: Students Are Weak

    • Teresa L. Sullivan
    Pages 71-93

  7. Resolve: Fix the Student

    • Teresa L. Sullivan
    Pages 95-110

  8. Alternative Context

    • Teresa L. Sullivan
    Pages 111-114

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 115-117
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About this book

This book examines the current political, social, and economic positions that push the responsibility for the emotional health of students onto schools. The context of recent education reform asks schools to mitigate adverse emotional health of students by developing and implementing broad programming, curriculum, and policies immersed in cognitive behavioral approaches. The design plan is intended to build resilience and develop strategies in students that will enable them to succeed despite adverse structural conditions. The swindle of education reform is that it deflects and blames families, youth, and the school system for the social ills of society. From the perspective of a thirty year Massachusetts educator and high school principal emerges an alternative reality that not only challenges decades of education reform entrenched in victim blaming but also exposes a serious responsibility gap.


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Authors and Affiliations

  • Plymouth, MA, USA

    Teresa L. Sullivan

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About the author

Teresa L. Sullivan is a veteran high school principal and advocate for social justice and youth-at-risk. Her research, publications, workshops and conference engagements contest education reform dogma as complicit in the deceitful and dangerous narrative that promotes the educationalization of student emotional health.  
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Educationalization of Student Emotional and Behavioral Health

  • Book Subtitle: Alternative Truth

  • Authors: Teresa L. Sullivan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93064-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93063-3Published: 23 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93064-0Published: 12 July 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 117

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Educational Psychology, Skills, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Sociology of Education

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