Separating, Losing and Excluding Children

Narratives of Difference
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-23088-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

There has been an outpouring of children from schools over the last few years. The reasons for their exclusion from schools include: learning difficulties, behavioural problems or physical disability. Other reasons that are not dependent on a 'deficit' model of the children relate to Conservative-led initiatives involving school league tables, greater accountability, inspections, etc. Whatever the reasons, the new government are committed to reducing the number of children who are forced out of mainstream schooling.
The author addresses the key issues and relates them to the main theory/literature in the area. He 'unpicks' the major theories and applies them to possible ways of working with children in the classroom. Four case studies are used in order to make these proposed ways of working more accessible. As with other books in the series, exercises, readings and questions are set throughout.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Billington, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Working with Difference; Chapter 2 Gary—A Formal Assessment; Chapter 3 Pathologizing Children; Chapter 4 Speaking of Mary; Chapter 5 Authority and the Written Word; Chapter 6 Memory, History and the Division of Labour; Chapter 7 Alienation or Pathology?; Chapter 8 Tales from the Autistic Spectrum; Chapter 9 Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Billington currently teaches in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Sheffield and also works as an LEA psychologist in the Merseyside region. He has been a teacher and psychologist for over twenty years, working in schools, colleges and universities.