Separating, Losing and Excluding Children: Narratives of Difference (Master Classes in Education) - Softcover

Billington, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415230896 ISBN 13: 9780415230896

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415230896
• ISBN 13: 9780415230896
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144