Schooling The Rustbelt Kids Making The Difference In Changing Times by Pat Thomson

Schools in disadvantaged areas are struggling in the current economic and political environment. Like schools everywhere they are being asked to do more with less, but they face more obstacles. In recent years education policy has shifted from a holistic approach to learning to a focus on narrow educational outcomes: spelling, reading and writing. Thomson shows that this approach penalises disadvantaged schools and argues that educational and social disadvantage are inextricably linked in children's everyday lives. Examining primary and secondary schools in disadvantaged areas in a post-industrial ('rustbelt') city, Schooling the Rustbelt Kids reopens the debate about inequality in schooling. It provides concrete evidence that typical government policies in the Western world are not working, and that they are helping to create a permanent underclass.

Publisher:	Allen & Unwin
Year:	2002
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9781865086859
Condition:	Good
Description:	Minor foxing.

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SKU: 1599819
Location: Education