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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777469903321

Autore

Reid Ken.

Titolo

Tackling truancy in schools : a practical manual for primary and secondary schools / / Ken Reid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-62815-3

1-138-42167-7

0-203-06644-8

1-280-10577-1

Descrizione fisica

viii, 352 p. : ill

Disciplina

371.2950941

Soggetti

School attendance - Great Britain

School management and organization - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [348]-[350]) and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter Unit 1 The Outcomes of Truancy -- chapter Unit 2 Types of Truancy -- chapter Unit 3 Categories of Truants -- chapter Unit 4 Incidence, School and Regional Differences -- chapter Unit 5 Recent Themes on Truancy and Absenteeism -- chapter Unit 6 Parents and Schools -- chapter Unit 7 The Social Causes of Truancy -- chapter Unit 8 One-parent Families, Pupils and Schools -- chapter Unit 9 The Educational Causes of Truancy -- chapter Unit 10 Improving School Attendance -- The Use of School-based Review -- chapter Unit 11 The Use of Surveys -- Designing a Questionnaire on Attendance -- chapter Unit 12 School Policy Documents on Attendance -- chapter Unit 13 Practical Ideas for Schools -- chapter Unit 14 Teachers, Teaching and Truancy -- chapter Unit 15 A Five-year Project to Improve Attendance -- chapter Unit 16 A School Improvement Project on Attendance -- chapter Unit 17 OFSTED and Improving School Attendance -- chapter Unit 18 OFSTED -- Guidelines on Attendance and Behaviour -- chapter Unit 19 New Initiatives on Truancy and Attendance -- chapter Unit 20 Truancy and Exclusion -- chapter Unit 21 Attendance and the Use of Records of Achievement -- chapter Unit 22 The Use of Work Placement Schemes -- chapter Unit 23 The Role of the Education Welfare Service



-- chapter Unit 24 An Annual Report on Attendance in a Local Education Authority -- chapter Bibliography -- chapter Further Reading.