Work

Unsettling Foundations of School Pushout: Toward Intersectional Perspectives of Educational Carcerality

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT This article reviews existing foundational scholarly conversations on school pushout across sociological and interdisciplinary sets of literature, paying careful attention to central ideas and arguments from scholarship that speaks to the study of punishment, discipline, and exclusion in schooling and societal contexts. We review two salient themes that resulted from our enduring engagement with school pushout discourses: (1) gendered “doing” in school discipline and punishment, and (2) punishment, pushouts, and the outsourcing of the racialized “problem.” Through intellectual affordances provided by scholarly uptakes of intersectionality within Black feminist traditions, we draw on these themes in an attempt to unsettle foundations of school pushout by formulating an articulation for intersectional perspectives rooted in broader conceptions of educational carcerality.

Source: Sociology Compass

DOI: 10.1111/soc4.70236

Authors: Brian Cabral, Jonathan M. Ibarra

Institutions: The University of Texas at Austin, California Polytechnic State University

Language: English

Topic: Education Discipline and Inequality

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Quality education, Gender equality

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,350