Analysing Underachievement in Schools

AvEmma Smith

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-06-09
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780826475657

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Dr Emma Smith is Lecturer in Educational Studies at York University. She is an authority on underachievement in the UK, having presented her findings to the House of Commons Education Select Committee on pupil achievement.

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"...this is an interesting book, of relevance to policy-makers, researchers and practitioners seeking to better understand and engage with the perennial debates on underachievement and who are keen to gain an alternate perspective to national and international notions of educational success and failure." Educational Review, December 2009

Innehållsförteckning

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