ABSTRACT
Pupil disaffection has been around as long as there has been compulsory schooling. The Newsom Report, Half Our Future (Central Advisory Council on Education, 1963), is about the growing group of young school leavers who had little commitment to the curriculum they experienced and showed little motivation to benefit from it. Though disaffection could flourish even in selective schools (Lacey, 1970), it was mainly to be found with workingclass pupils. The formation of anti-school subcultures has been well documented from Hargreaves (1967) through Willis (1977) and Corrigan (1979) to Blackman (1995).
