Truancy and schools / Ken Reid.
At present about one million pupils truant from their schools on a daily basis and this book examines why they do it. The numerous reasons for truanting discussed are: * disadvantageous home backgrounds * problems with settling in socially at school * poor performance in school * experiencing bullyi...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1 The consequences of truancy
- chapter 2 Types of truants and incidence
- chapter 3 Types of truancy
- chapter 4 Causes of truancy: social perspectives
- chapter 5 Causes of truancy: psychological indices
- chapter 6 Educational causes of truancy
- chapter 7 Government initiatives
- chapter 8 School-based initiatives
- chapter 9 Whole-school approaches to reducing truancy
- chapter 10 Improving school attendance: school-based review
- chapter 11 Teachers, teaching and truancy
- chapter 12 An internal and an external solution
- Records of achievement and work placement schemes
- chapter 13 OFSTED: guidelines on attendance and behaviour
- chapter 14 Parents and truancy
- chapter 15 Education welfare service
- chapter 16 Epilogue.