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  • Improving Schools, Developing Inclusion

    by Mel Ainscow, Tony Booth, Alan Dyson ...
    Series series Improving Learning
    While many books explore the possibilities for developing inclusive practices in schools, and ‘inclusion’ is widely regarded as a desirable goal, much of the literature on the subject has been narrowly concerned with the inclusion of pupils with special educational needs. This book however, takes the view that marginalisation, exclusion and underachievement take many forms and affect many ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Education, Disadvantage and Place

    Making the Local Matter

    by Kirstin Kerr, Alan Dyson, Carlo Raffo ...
    In England, as in countries across the world, shrinking public funding, growing localism, and increased school autonomy make tackling the link between education, disadvantage and place more important than ever. Challenging current thinking, this important book is the first to focus on the role of area-based initiatives in this struggle. It brings together a wide range of evidence to review the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Theorising Special Education

    Edited by Catherine Clark, Alan Dyson, Alan Millward ...
    The field of special needs education is well established, and although it continues to develop in exciting and controversial ways, involving some of education's leading thinkers, many people feel it is lacking a coherent theoretical analysis of its own. Students and practitioners, looking for some solid theory to reinforce their own study or practice, commonly have to 'borrow' from other ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Towards Inclusive Schools?

    Edited by Catherine Clark, Alan Dyson, Alan Millward ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Special Educational Needs
    First published in 1995. Notions of ‘inclusive schools’ and ‘schooling for diversity’ are rapidly gaining currency across the developed world as alternatives to traditional approaches to special needs education. This book explores the advances in our understanding of how schools can change and develop in order to include a wider range of students. By bringing together some of the foremost ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Rethinking Special Needs in Mainstream Schools

    Towards the Year 2000

    Edited by Alan Dyson, Charles Gains ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Special Educational Needs
    First published in 1993. This book critically analyses the state of provision for special needs, exploring the problems faced by practitioners and suggesting that the area is fraught with such tensions that a radical reconceptualization is necessary. It considers how the field may be rethought and developed over the next decade and presents examples of innovatory practice which point the way ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Beyond the School Gates

    Can Full Service and Extended Schools Overcome Disadvantage?

    by Colleen Cummings, Alan Dyson, Liz Todd ...
    This book, for the first time ever, critically examines the role of full service and extended schools. The authors draw on their extensive international evaluations of this radical new phenomenon to ask:What do extended or full service schools hope to achieve, and why should services based on schools be any more effective than services operating from other community bases?What pattern of services ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Developing Equitable Education Systems

    by Mel Ainscow, Alan Dyson, Sue Goldrick, Mel West ...
    Despite consistent improvements in the school systems of over recent years, there are still too many children who miss out. It is not only children from disadvantaged backgrounds attending hard-pressed urban schools that the system is failing - even in the most successful schools there are often groups of learners whose experience of schooling is less than equitable.As a result of their close ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Education and Poverty in Affluent Countries

    Edited by Carlo Raffo, Alan Dyson, Helen Gunter, Dave Hall, Lisa Jones, Afroditi Kalambouka ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    For the first time, researchers, policymakers and practitioners across the world will have access to a comprehensive mapping of research evidence and policy strategies about education and poverty in affluent countries. Although there is widespread agreement that poverty and poor educational outcomes are related, there are competing explanations as to why that should be the case. This is a major ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    Concepts, Contexts and Cultures

    Edited by Sue Rogers ...
    Bringing together a collection of chapters from international experts in the field of early childhood education, Rethinking Play and Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education seeks to explore how play in the Early Years is valued as a means of learning. The book discusses how play is presented, transformed by institutional and pedagogical discourses and ultimately experienced by children. Adopting ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Curriculum

    Theory and Practice

    by Professor A Vic Kelly ...
    'This book will be of interest to educational practitioners, and many other professionals concerned with the education and development of the young' - ESCalate`A very well-respected book [and a] Curriculum classic...[which offers] balance to current official publications...One of its strengths is the coherent argument that runs throughout. It is very much a product of the wide knowledge and ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Disability Studies

    An Interdisciplinary Introduction

    by Dan Goodley ...
    Passionate, engaging and challenging, this second edition of the ground-breaking Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction is a contemporary introduction to this diverse and complex field.Taking an interdisciplinary and critical approach, the book*:*examines a diverse range of theories and perspectives and engages with current debates in the fieldexplores key areas of analysis, with ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Social Psychology

    by Wendy Stainton Rogers ...
    This introductory text examines two different approaches to social psychology experimental and critical - and is updated with new developments. ... Read more

    $59.39 USD