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From: Andrew Azzopardi
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Cc: Daniela Mercieca
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 6:29 PM
Subject: a new one......
dear list members,
looks like an interesting book...
andrew azzopardi
If you decide to order this title, please take a note of the ISBN number, title and price, or print the page, so that you have the information ready to complete the order form later.
Children at the Margins: supporting children, supporting schools
edited by: Tom Billington and Michael Pomerantz
Price £17.99
186 pages
226mm x 145mm
ISBN 1 85856 337 2
May 2004
The drive to improve educational standards has occurred just when anxieties are soaring about the consequences of exclusion. At the same time, international guidance and UK legislation carry exhortations to consider both the rights of children and also their views. This is a book for teachers, educational psychologists, child care workers, and policy makers.
It considers the competing dilemmas: how do we improve achievement in schools, reduce social exclusion and also listen to the voice of the child? It highlights the social processes in which the fundamental discourses and values of our society are played out in the lives of children - at what age, for example, can they make decisions or even participate in decisions made about their own lives?
By examining the social processes within their own professional domains the authors strive to achieve more progressive and ethical approaches. They challenge theories and practices that serve to marginalize the children with whom they work, and they provide models of intervention and practice that readers can use in their own professional practice.
We learn what children have to say about the curriculum and about school improvement. Chapters examine classroom practice, children in public care, multi-agency working, ADHD and psychostimulants, able underachievers, whether educational psychologists help or hinder, and the effectiveness of nurture groups. The contributors are: Daniela Mercieca, Richard Gamman, Jackie Lown, Stephanie James, Lynn Mackey and Tiny Arora, Lynn Turner, Keith Venables and Katie Clarke, and Brian Willis.
Dr Tom Billington is Course Director for the practitioner doctoral programmes in Educational Psychology at University of Sheffield.
Dr Michael Pomerantz is a Senior Educational Psychologist in Derbyshire and teaches on the University of Sheffield programme.
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