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9780750709019

Combating Educational Disadvantage: Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Children

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  • ISBN13:

    9780750709019

  • ISBN10:

    0750709014

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-10-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Highly respected contributors focus on the challenges to the educational system posed by children and young people who experience a variety of social and economic disadvantages. Suggestions are made for tackling exclusionary practice.

Author Biography

Theo Cox is an Honorary Departmental Research Fellow in the Department of Education of the University of Wales Swansea. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
ix
Foreword xi
Ronald Davie
Introduction
1(14)
Theo Cox
PART I Vulnerable Groups 15(86)
Ethnic Minorities and Education: New Disadvantages
17(20)
Sally Tomlinson
Boy's Underachievement: Social Class and Changing Masculinites
37(16)
Helen Lucey
Valerie Walkerdine
Pupil Absenteeism in the Primary School
53(12)
Tim Carroll
Promoting the Educational Achievement of Looked-After Children
65(16)
Sonia Jackson
Social Disadvantage and Disruptive Behaviour in School
81(20)
Maurice Chazan
PART II Meeting the Needs of the Disadvantaged 101(172)
Recognizing Differences: Reinterpreting Family Involvement in Early Literacy
103(18)
Eve Gregory
Early Childhood Education to Ensure a `Fair Start' for All
121(15)
Kathy Sylva
Pupil's Perspectives on their Education
136(20)
Theo Cox
Can School Improvement Overcome the Effects of Disadvantage?
156(21)
Peter Mortimore
Geoff Whitty
LEAs: The Problem or the Solution?
177(14)
Anne Sofer
Combating Unequal Access to Education: The Work of a Local Education Authority Educational Psychology Service
191(18)
Irvine S. Gersch
Terry Cope
Graham Pratt
Gill Sassienie
Shungu Hilda M'Gadzah
Satwinder Saraon
Michael Sutoris
David Townley
Co-ordinated Services for Disadvantaged Children: An International Perspective
209(16)
Peter Evans
The Social, Economic and Political Climate in the United States and the Education of People of Colour
225(21)
Carl A. Grant
Lavonne J. Williams
Support for Lifelong Learning
246(13)
John Macbeath
Overview
259(14)
Theo Cox
Notes on Contributors 273(5)
Name Index 278(7)
Subject Index 285

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