1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964930403321

Autore

Parsons Carl

Titolo

Schooling the Estate Kids / / by Carl Parsons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rotterdam : , : SensePublishers : , : Imprint : SensePublishers, , 2012

ISBN

9789462090125

9462090122

9789462090132

9462090130

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Collana

Studies in Professional Life and Work ; ; 7

Disciplina

370

Soggetti

Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Carl Pasons -- Introduction / Carl Pasons -- An Estate of Mind / Carl Pasons -- I Live on the Newington Estate / Carl Pasons -- The Ecology of a School in Challenging Circumstances / Carl Pasons -- The Worst School in England – Whose Fault? / Carl Pasons -- School Improvement and Blood on the Tracks / Carl Pasons -- The Academy – Vision, Principles, Structures and Ethos of a New Beginning / Carl Pasons -- The Marlowe Academy – Action, Reaction and Impact / Carl Pasons -- School Improvement Measures – Academic Research, Practical Interventions, Failing, Succeeding / Carl Pasons -- A School to Serve: Young People and Parents with Views, Hopes and Aspirations / Carl Pasons -- Making a Working Class School Work / Carl Pasons -- The Story to August 2012 / Carl Pasons -- Methodology / Carl Pasons -- Notes / Carl Pasons -- Index / Carl Pasons.

Sommario/riassunto

Schooling the Estate Kids chronicles the trajectory of one Kent secondary school which was twice dubbed ‘the worst school in England’ in the national press. Serving a high poverty neighbourhood, The Ramsgate School was challenged by national targets, low levels of attainment of the school intake at 11 and difficulties of recruitment and retention of quality staff. The local housing estates were amongst the most deprived in the country and shared the school’s negative reputation. The school became The Marlowe Academy in 2005 with new



leadership and a new building (in 2006). Student numbers increased, attendance and attainment came close to the national average and the atmosphere in the school was transformed, though the characteristics of the pupils in terms of special needs (twice the national average) and deprivation (more than twice the national average entitled to free school meals) remained unchanged. This book questions the notion that school improvement and school leadership are key areas to focus on when the socio-economic circumstances of pupils, poverty, dwarf all the other factors which are related to the educational progress of students.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910895957303321

Titolo

Statistical abstract / / Cyprus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Nicosia, : Statistics Section, Financial Secretary's Office, 1956-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

1985 & 1986-2012: General statistics. Series I

Disciplina

314

Soggetti

Statistics as Topic

statistics

yearbook

Cyprus

statistique

annuaire

Chypre

Periodicals.

Statistics.

Cyprus Statistics Periodicals

Cyprus

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959888403321

Autore

Trencsnyi Balzs <1973->

Titolo

The politics of "national character" : a study in interwar East European thought / / Balzs Trencsnyi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012

ISBN

1-283-46259-1

9786613462596

0-203-80670-0

1-136-65723-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in comparative political thought

Disciplina

947.0009/042

Soggetti

National characteristics, East European

Nationalism - Europe, Eastern - Historiography

Nationalism - Europe, Eastern - History

Europe, Eastern Historiography

Europe, Eastern History 1918-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Politics of ""National Character"" A study in interwar East European thought; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 National specificity and the challenge of ahistoricity in the Romanian intellectual tradition; 3 Historicism and populism: dilemmas of the Hungarian character-discourse; 4 Symbolic geographies and normative pasts: the search for the true Bulgarian self; 5 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The book is a comparative analysis of the ideological constructions of national specificity in Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. Studying the growing infatuation with ""national essence"" it seeks to understand the radicalization of nationalism in East Central Europe in connection with the shift of the notions of historicity and temporality.Trencsényi provides a contextual analysis of the symbolic resources and available ideological references that were used for creating these discourses in the respective countries. While focusing on the interwar period when these conceptions became ce