Absent With Cause - Lessons of Truancy

First published in 1980, Absent with Cause, reissued here with a new preface, looks at the Bayswater Centre, which provided full-time education for young people who had stopped attending comprehensive schools and for whom the alternative may well have been home tuition or residential provision in community homes or assessment centres.

List of contents

New Preface for the Reissue. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. Danish Lessons in Practical Education 2. Alternative Provision in Britain 3. A Tale of Two Classrooms: The Rs That Count 4. School Phobias: The Myth of Labelling 5. Autumn Term 6. Ancillary Factors: Resourcefulness, the Fourth R 7. Spring Term 8. Self-Analysis 9. Leaving School: The Final Term 10. Student Involvement 11. Metamorphosis of a School: Three Rs 12. Conclusion: Implications for Mainstream Education. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Schools, Centres and Units Consulted or Visited.

Summary

First published in 1980, Absent with Cause, reissued here with a new preface, looks at the Bayswater Centre, which provided full-time education for young people who had stopped attending comprehensive schools and for whom the alternative may well have been home tuition or residential provision in community homes or assessment centres.

Product details

• Authors: Roger White
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032900711
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3290071-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Inclusive Education, EDUCATION / Experimental Methods, Organization & management of education, Secondary Schools, Educational administration and organization, Teaching of students with different educational needs, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary, Truancy & anti-truancy strategies