Working with Disaffected Students: Why Students Lose Interest in School and What We Can Do About It [Paperback]

From talking to parents, pupils and teachers, the authors provide some answers to the question, What can be done to make a difference?

From talking to parents, pupils and teachers, the authors provide some answers to the question, What can be done to make a difference?

`Working with Disaffected Students is an interesting, informative and accessible book which should appeal to the target audience of practitioners and policy makers. The recommendations in this book are sound and highly relevant to the target audience. Everyone, particularly the disaffected young people themselves, should benefit from sound research presented in such and engaging and accessible way' - British Journal Educational Studies

`The book stresses the importance of early (and real) inter-agency co-operation, and of good initial and on-going teacher training' - Michael Duffy, The Times Educational Supplement

`An insightful, powerful and, at times, worrying exploration of reasons for children choosing, or being forced, not to attend school. I feel that this book is a must-read for teachers, parents and carers alike. If the powerful messages are absorbed and internalized, then perhaps new ways of exploring the relationships required with children who become disaffected can be found' - Lynne Westwood, Working with People Who Have a Learning Disability

'This book is a welcome and timely addition to the growing body of research and lÓÞ