Separating, Losing and Excluding Children: Narratives of Difference

ISBN-13: 9780415230896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 144 str.

Tom Billington

Opis

The government is committed to reducing the number of children who are forced out of mainstream schooling. The author of this book addresses the key issues and relates them to the main theory/literature in the area, including the work of Vygotsky, Foucault, Lacan, Burman and Bion. He unpicks the major theories and applies them to possible ways of working with children in the classroom. Four case studies are used in order to make these proposed ways of working more accessible. As with other books in the series, exercises, readings and questions are set throughout.

Recenzje

'This is a fascinating book, which I would recommend to those working with children who are different, but also to a wider audience who have an interest in discourses around disability and education.' - British Journal of Special Education

'This is a book born out of the author's work as an educational psychologist, full of stimulating narratives of personal experiences blended with theoretical analyses and which manages to prove accessible, academically rigorous and exceptionally engaging.' - British Journal of Educational Psychology

'...this book has the potential to spark the sort of reflection and debate that would provide a qualitatively different reappraisal of our role.' - Educational Psychology in Practice

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Working with Difference; Chapter 2 Gary—A Formal Assessment; Chapter 3 Pathologizing Children; Chapter 4 Speaking of Mary; Chapter 5 Authority and the Written Word; Chapter 6 Memory, History and the Division of Labour; Chapter 7 Alienation or Pathology?; Chapter 8 Tales from the Autistic Spectrum; Chapter 9 Conclusion;

O autorze

Tom Billington currently teaches in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Sheffield and also works as an LEA psychologist in the Merseyside region. He has been a teacher and psychologist for over twenty years, working in schools, colleges and universities.