Tizard, Barbara

Barbara Tizard is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Education, the University of London, where she was formerly Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit. All her research with children and young people has been concerned to provide a sounder basis for the decisions, practices and policies that help to shape their lives and their development. Her books include "Adoption: A Second Chance "(1970), "Involving Parents in Nursery and Infant Schools" (with Burchell and Mortimore, 1978), "Young Children at School in the Inner City "(with Blatchford, Burke, Farquhar, and Plewis, 1988), and "Blac...