Analysing underachievement in schools
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Analysing underachievement in schools
（Empirical studies in education）
Continuum, c2007
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
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Bibliography: p. [187]-208
Includes 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 which 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 will consider 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
- 1. Underachievement in context
- Part 1: Underachievement: An international perspective
- 2. The falling nations debate
- 3. Reconsidering international comparisons
- Part 2: Falling standards and failing pupils?
- 4. Failing boys and moral practices
- 5. Reevaluating underachievement
- 6. Underachieving working class boys?
- Part 3: Understanding underachievement
- 7. Reconceptualising 'underachievement'
- 8. Recommendations for practice.
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