Exemplary Teachers of Students in Poverty: The Fair Go Team - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415531578 ISBN 13: 9780415531573

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Exemplary Teachers of Students in Poverty "Education and poverty exist in a highly contested relationship even in the developed world. On the one hand, educational outcomes seem solidly attached to socio-economic status, and on the other, education is often cited as a way out of poverty. Success at de-coupling poverty from educational outcomes varies across the developed world. The issues connecting education and poverty are complex, but Full description

About this title

Review:

'In every sense the book represents the ways in which schooling can be conducted as an enlightened enterprise that is mutually transformative for teachers and students alike.' - Susan Groundwater-Smith, Honorary Professor of Education, University of Sydney, Australia

About the Author:

Geoff Munns is a researcher at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, and leader of the Fair Go Program, actively working to make schools and classrooms more productive for students in poverty.

Wayne Sawyer is Director of Research in the School of Education at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, and a member of the Centre for Educational Research.

Bronwyn Cole is an Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor in Education at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, and a founding member of the Fair Go Program.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0415531578
• ISBN 13: 9780415531573
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Munns Geoff