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9780415205092

Truancy and Schools

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415205092

  • ISBN10:

    0415205093

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1999-11-16
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This book focuses on the social, psychological and educational causes of truancy; recent research is examined, and examples of good practice and the latest solutions for tackling this problem are looked at in detail. The text is intended for teachers, department heads, education welfare officers, social workers, educational psychologists, parents and all those with an interest in or ability to contribute to educational policy and practice.

Author Biography

Ken Reid is Senior Assistant Principal at Swansea Institute of Higher Education.

Table of Contents

List of boxes
vii
List of tables
viii
Acknowledgements ix
Foreword x
The consequences of truancy
1(5)
Types of truants and incidence
6(20)
Types of truancy
26(18)
Causes of truancy: social perspectives
44(12)
Causes of truancy: psychological indices
56(26)
Educational causes of truancy
82(20)
Government initiatives
102(34)
School-based initiatives
136(38)
Whole-school approaches to reducing truancy
174(20)
Improving school attendance: school-based review
194(25)
Teachers, teaching and truancy
219(14)
An internal and an external solution: records of achievement and work placement schemes
233(38)
OFSTED: guidelines on attendance and behaviour
271(15)
Parents and truancy
286(23)
Education welfare service
309(23)
Epilogue
332(2)
Bibliography 334(2)
Index 336

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