Policies for Diversity in Education: 2 (Learning for All) - Softcover

Swann, Will; Masterson, Mary; Potts, Patricia; Booth, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415071852 ISBN 13: 9780415071857

Publisher: Routledge, 1991

Synopsis

Examines the regional and national policies and the power and interest groups concerned with educational difficulties and disability, and analyses one threatened element of the power structure - the local education authorities.

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Review:

." . . in these days of the national curriculum with its dry texts and sterile prose it comes as something of a relief to read something about the school curriculum and education policy which is both lively and intelligent and based upon carefully thought through experience or "the joys, troubles and conceits of experience in education" as the editors put it."
-Stephen J. Ball, "Times Higher Education Supplement, May 1, 1992

Synopsis:

The emphasis in this book shifts to the coordination of practice into schools, regional and national policies and the power and interest groups concerned with educational difficulties and disability. In the opening section the authors review the location of power in the systems; the impact of Local Management of Schools, case studies of Union policy, the National Curriculum Council and voluntary societies. They then look at one threatened element of the power structure - the local education authorities. They examine the features of local authority policy and attempt to systematise local policy. The experience of families is examined in their relationships with professionals, particularly during the preparation of Statements of Special Educational Need.

This is followed by sections on services for under-fives, integrating education and the authors provide examples of changing school policies and the practices that have arisen from them; supporting the learning of all pupils in primary and secondary schools, changing the role of special schools, ensuring that girls and boys are provided with equal opportunities, writing a development plan and the experience of a teacher with a disability. They then examine policies and practices in education after school and finish with theories of integration and disability.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0415071852
• ISBN 13: 9780415071857
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464