Analysing underachievement in schools
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Analysing underachievement in schools
（Empirical studies in education）
Continuum, 2005
- hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-208) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Underachievement in school is one of the most widely-used terms in education today. As a discourse, it has been responsible for influencing government policy, staffroom discussions, as well as the pages of academic journals and the TES. It is also a subject that raises questions about what we expect from a fair and equitable education system. This book provides a critical analysis of two sides of the underachievement debate, at each of the three levels of focus - international, the UK, and the individual. On the one hand, it considers the 'crisis account' of falling standards and failing pupils and, on the other, present an alternative account, which urges a re-evaluation of the underachievement debate in order to consider who might be underachieving and why.
Table of Contents
- Underachievement in Context
- Part 1: Underachievement: An International perspective
- The Falling Nations Debate
- Reconsidering International Comparisons
- Part 2: Falling Standards and Failing Pupils? Failing Boys and Moral Practices
- Re-evaluating Underachievement
- Underachieving Working Class Boys? Part 3: Understanding Underachievement
- Reconceptualising 'Underachievement'
- Recommendations for Practice
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