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  • Alternatives to Exclusion from School

    `... an excellent volume, one which should become essential reading for students of education, especially those at the start of their careers. Incidentally, not only is the book concise; unusually for a jointly-authored book it is also hard to see the joins; it really does read well′ - Scottish Affairs`An interesting comparison of pairs of schools which differed in the extent to which they ... Read more

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  • Parents and Schools (1993)

    Customers, Managers or Partners?

    Edited by Pamela Munn ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1993, this book explores the rights that parents have been given over their children’s schooling. Parents now have the right to choose the school their children will attend and to be involved with school management. These rights and roles for parents as customers and managers are intended to make schools more responsive to parental concerns and to improve school quality. This book ... Read more

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  • Education in Scotland

    Policy and Practice from Pre-School to Secondary

    Edited by Margaret M Clark, Pamela Munn ...
    Education in Scotland is markedly different from what happens in the rest of the UK - with a different National Curriculum, school boards to oversee school management and a General Teaching Council which has been in existence since 1965. Whilst there are many examples of successful and innovative practice in Scotland, the system is quite often not recognised as different by writers who talk about ... Read more

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  • Child Well-Being

    Understanding Children's Lives

    Child well-being, which covers everything from family relationships to their material well-being, is now increasingly being talked about in policy and practice nationally and internationally. However, a lack of clarity remains about what the idea really means and how it can help children.This book brings together contributions from international experts in order to define child well-being and to ... Read more

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  • Reading And Writing Skills In Primary Education

    This book summarizes aspects of reading and writing in primary schools, interest to educationists in the UK. It outlines the general process of reading comprehension into different levels. ... Read more

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    Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
    Adult social care in Britain has been at the centre of much media and public attention in recent years. Revelations of horrific abuse in learning disability settings, the collapse of major private care home providers, abject failures of inspection and regulation, and uncertainty over how long-term care of older people should be funded have all given rise to serious public concern. In this short ... Read more

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    Learning from the Past

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  • Education under Siege

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    At a time when education is considered crucial to a country’s economic success, recent UK governments have insisted their reforms are the only way to make England’s system world class. Yet pupils are tested rather than educated, teachers bullied rather than trusted and parents cast as winners or losers in a gamble for school places.Education under siege considers the English education system as it ... Read more

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  • A Generation of Radical Educational Change

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  • Child Law for Social Work

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