Disaffection from school? : the early years

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Disaffection from school? : the early years

edited by Gill Barrett

(Education & alienation series)

Falmer Press, 1989

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographies and index

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The purpose of this book is to explore the nature and appearance of disaffection and alienation in young children and try to understand its significance. It explores classroom interactions and adult expectations of children as well as historical and policy-related perspectives in schools.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The child - thinker and learner or disaffected recipient?: a child's eye view of schooling
  • "deliver us from eagles" - factors making for sense or nonsense in the young child's view of the curriculum, Annabel Dixon
  • self esteem and learning in the early years, Denis Lawrence. Part 2 Teachers, classrooms and education - contexts for disaffection: classrooms and behaviour - teachers' perspectives on disaffection, Gill Barrett
  • a process of mind - creativity and learning or the construction of disaffection?, Ann Saunders
  • theories and assumptions about children and learning in early years schooling - an historical perspective, Clem Adelman. Part 3 Home, school and community - continuity or discontinuity: being a disaffected parent, John Schostak
  • "they're too young to notice" - young children and racism, Ian Menter
  • counteracting disaffection - school ethos and the individual within a community, Val Wood. Part 4 Learning and knowing - societal and individual perspectives: "School starts at five...or four years old?" - the rationale for changing admission policies in England and Wales, Martin Woodhead
  • a re-examination of the needs of teacher education for early years teachers, Peter Heaslip
  • ways of thinking in society, individuals and school curriculum - a framework for disaffection?, Gill Barrett.

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