Combating Educational Disadvantage (eBook, ePUB)

Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Children
Redaktion: Cox, Theo; Cox, Theo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The New Labour Government puts Education, Education, Education at the heart of its agenda but is it doing enough to combat educational disadvantage?
Combating Educational Disadvantage sets the discussion of educational disadvantage within the socio-political context of the 1980s and 1990s, with its market philosophy in education and brings together the contributions of leading writers and researchers of international standing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135707088
• Artikelnr.: 47892528

Autorenporträt

Theo Cox is an Honorary departmental Research Fellow in the Department of Education of the University of Wales Swansea. His research interests have centred on educationally disadvantaged children and he has written books and research articles on this topic. He is Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Ronald Davie
1. Introduction Theo Cox
Part 1: 1. Vulnerable Groups
2. Ethnic Minorities in Britain: New Disadvantages Sally Tomlinson
3. Boys' Underachievement: Social Class and Changing Masculinites Helen Lucey and Valerie Walkerdine
4. Pupil Absenteeism in the Primary School Maurice Chazan
Part 2: Meeting the Needs of the Disadvantaged
7. Recognising Differences: Reinterpreting Family Involvement in Early Literacy
8. Early Childhood Education to Ensure a 'Fair Start' for All Kathy Sylva
9. Pupils' Perspectives on their Education Theo Cox
10. Can School Improvement Overcome the Effects of Disadvantage? Peter Mortimore and Geoff Whitty
11. LEAs. The Problem or the Solution? Anne Sofer
12. Combating Unequal Access to Education - the Work of an LEA Educational Psychology Service Irvine Gersch and Associates
13. Coordinated Services for Disadvantaged Children: an International Perspective Peter Evans
14. The Social
Economic and Political Climate in the United States and the Education of People of Color Carl Grant
15. Support for Lifelong Learning John MacBeath
16. Overview Theo Cox.