Transforming Troubled Lives: Key Issues in Policy, Practice and Provision

ISBN-13: 9780415634977 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 110 str.

John Visser

Opis

The chapters in this book are taken from those presented at the International Conference organised by SEBDA in 2010 around the theme 'Transforming Troubled Lives', with each contributor addressing issues of policy, practice or provision whilst exploring an essential question: is what we are doing effective?

Spis treści

1. Transforming troubled lives John Visser  2. The non-sense of raising school attendance Anne Sheppard  3. Towards a new construct of social, emotional and behavioural difficulties Frédéric Fovet  4. Checking if institutional programs are matched with the results of risk and needs assessment in a Croatian context Anja Mirosavljevíc and Nivex Koller-Trbovíc  5. Children in residential care and school engagement or school ‘dropout’: what makes the difference in terms of policies and practices in England and France? Benjamin Denecheau  6. Pupil voice: listening to and hearing the educational experiences of young people with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD) Marie O’Connor, Alan Hodkinson, Diana Burton and Gabriella Torstensson  7. Living in the ‘real world’: the experiences and support of school-leavers with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties Zoe O’Riordan  8. Cyber bullying: practices to face digital aggression Mickie Wong-Lo, Lyndal M. Bullock and Robert A. Gable; Book reviews

O autorze

John Visser is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Northampton, UK.