Paul Cooper, Yonca Tiknaz

Nurture Groups in School and at Home (eBook, ePUB)

Connecting with Children with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways in which pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties can be effectively engaged in schooling - either in school or at home. It explains the social and emotional underpinnings of learning and presents practical strategies for aiding engagement.

Nurture groups, originally devised and implemented in the 1970s, are specially designed classes that cater for pupils having difficulties in adjusting to the requirements of mainstream classrooms. Paul Cooper and Yonca Tiknaz present evidence of the success of nurture groups from the perspectives of the children participating in them, their parents and school staff members who manage nurture groups in schools, and examine what factors affect the success of the group. From this they draw key messages for effective practice, including the fundamental importance of recognising a child's emotional needs and meeting them, and the pivotal role of the relationship between the teaching staff co-ordinating the group.

Nurture Groups in School and at Home will provide essential information and accessible advice for teaching professionals running nurture groups in schools and for parents and carers running them at home.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846426001
• Artikelnr.: 38436444

Autorenporträt

Paul Cooper is a chartered psychologist and professor of education and is Director if the School of Education and the Centre for Innovation in Raising Educational Achievement at the University of Leicester. Yonca Tiknaz is a research associate at the Centre for Raising Educational Achievement at the University of Leicester, where she also lectures in Research Methods for the School of Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Nurture Groups. 2. A Nurture Group in Action. 3. What School
Staff Say About Nurture Groups. 4. Carers, Children and Nurture Groups. 5.
How Are Students Selected for Placement in a Nurture Group?. 6. Do Nurture
Groups Work? Existing Research on Nurture Groups. 7. Involving Carers in
Nurture Groups. 8. A Model for Analysing Problem Situations: S.A.L.A.D. 9.
What Makes a Successful Nurture Group?. 10. Conclusion: Key Pointers for
Practitioners. Subject index. Author index.
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