Janet Y. Thomas

Educating Drug-Exposed Children

The Aftermath of the Crack-Baby Crisis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to use teachers' experiences to understand how prenatal drug exposure affects children's' development , and how social construction of the problem influences perceptions within schools.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9780415948944
• ISBN-10: 0415948940
• Artikelnr.: 21586503

Autorenporträt

Janet Y. Thomas is on the faculty in the Department of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Rutgers, Camden.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part I: Poor Urban Drug-Abusing Women and Crack Babies 2.
The Policy Paradox: Responding to Prenatal Substance Abuse 3. Crack Babies
and Developmental Outcomes: What Has the Research Taught Us? 4. The
Politics of At Risk: Drug-Exposed Children and Educational Policy Part II:
Educating Drug-Affected Children 5. Identifying a Cracked Foundation:
Teacher Observations 6. Healing the Crack in their World: Education and
Drug-Impacted Children Index