Managing and Improving School Attendance and Behaviour (eBook, PDF)

New Approaches and Initiatives
Redaktion: Reid, Ken

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This new book on school attendance and behaviour includes contributions on some of the latest research and thinking from around the world. Some of the interesting, wide-ranging, and often unique topics covered include: truancy and well-being, disaffection, pupil absenteeism, social mediation, aggression in primary schools, bullying, emotional barriers to learning, behaviour management training, exclusion, reintegration, and ethnic diversity. The book should prove both helpful and useful for a wide range of professionals, students, and academics, across a range of educational, care, and social policy disciplines. This book was published as a special issue of Educational Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317312079
• Artikelnr.: 56950434

Autorenporträt

Ken Reid is widely regarded as one of the leading international experts in the field of school attendance, truancy, and behaviour. He was the Chair of the Welsh Government's National Behaviour and Attendance Review (NBAR), which reported in 2008. He is the author or co-author of numerous books in education, research reports, and academic articles in leading journals, and is a much sought after public speaker, professional trainer, and educational commentator within media circles. His most recent books (all published by Routledge) include: Managing School Attendance (2014), An Essential Guide to Improving Attendance in Your School (2014), Better Behaviour through Home-School Relations (with Gill Ellis and Nicola Morgan,2013), and Tackling Behaviour in Your Primary School (with Nicola Morgan, 2012). He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June, 2010.

Inhaltsangabe

Managing and improving school attendance and behaviour: new approaches and
initiatives Introduction 1. Truancy and well-being among secondary school
pupils in England 2. What predicts disaffection in Irish primary schools?
3. Pupil absenteeism and the educational psychologist 4. Truancy: a look at
definitions in the USA and other territories 5. Rebuilding attendance
practices with youth: the role of social mediation 6. Aggression in primary
schools: the predictive power of the school and home environment 7.
Constructing bullying in Ontario, Canada: a critical policy analysis 8.
Working with schools in identifying and overcoming emotional barriers to
learning 9. Some possible effects of behaviour management training on
teacher confidence and competence: evidence from a study of primary school
teachers in Hong Kong 10. Promoting resilience through adversity:
increasing positive outcomes for expelled students 11. Factors affecting
successful reintegration 12. The relationship between ethnic diversity and
classroom disruption in the context of migration policies