Tackling Truancy in Schools - A Practical Manual for Primary and Secondary Schools

List of contents

Aims of the Handbook Acknowledgements
Unit 1 The Outcomes of Truancy
Unit2 Types of Truancy
Unit 3 Categories of Truants
Unit4 Incidence, School and Regional Differences
Unit 5 Recent Themes on Truancy and Absenteeism
Unit 6 Parents and Schools
Unit 7 The Social Causes of Truancy
Unit 8 One-parent Families, Pupils and Schools
Unit 9 The Educational Causes of Truancy
Unit 10 Improving School Attendance: The Use of School-based Review
Unit 11 The Use of Surveys: Designing a Questionnaire on Attendance
Unit 12 School Policy Documents on Attendance
Unit 13 Practical Ideas for Schools
Unit 14 Teachers, Teaching and Truancy
Unit 15 A Five-year Project to Improve Attendance
Unit 16 A School Improvement Project on Attendance
Unit 17 OFSTED and Improving School Attendance
Unit 18 OFSTED: Guidelines on Attendance and Behaviour
Unit 19 New Initiatives on Truancy and Attendance
Unit 20 Truancy and Exclusion
Unit 21 Attendance and the Use of Records of Achievement


Unit 22
The Use of Work Placement Schemes
Unit 23 The Role of the Education Welfare Service
Unit 24 An Annual Report on Attendance in a Local Education Authority
Bibliography
Further Reading
Index

Summary

Tackling Truancy in Schools is an up-to-date comprehensive text on the subject of truancy. It synthesises and brings together in a practical way recent knowledge and ideas on truants and truancy.

Product details

• Authors: Ken Reid
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2023
• EAN: 9781138421677
• ISBN: 978-1-138-42167-7
• No. of pages: 364
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Administration / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Teaching skills and techniques, Social welfare and social services, Teaching skills & techniques, Social and ethical issues, Schools and pre-schools