ABSTRACT
On the edge The history of school education, wherever and whenever it has been written, provides accounts of schools in the centre of a social mainstream with much less attention to the stories of schools perpetually on the periphery. What brings these schools together is a common policy framework despite the fact that their social and economic circumstances are worlds apart. Schools on the edge face a constant struggle to forge a closer alignment between home and school, parents and teachers, and between the formal world of school and the informal world of neighbourhood and peer group.
