Product Description

A polemical but well-researched analysis of the policies which are cau sing unacceptable levels of exclusion in British primary and secondary schools, particularly of black children, from a well-known educational campaigner. The author provides a wealth of statistical information, together with many case studies of wrongly excluded children. He also describes the attacks made on him by the NASUWT and local education authority in Sheffield, when he instituted a no exclusion policy as a headteacher. The book argues that exclusions are symptomatic of a wider culture of social exclusion, and puts forward alternative policies for dealing with difficult students - policies based, among other things, on a recognition that feelings of exclusion often contribute to the problem behaviour of students, and that a key task of any school is to actively work for the inclusion of all its students.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #780740 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
Chris Searle lectures in educational studies at Goldsmiths College at the University of London. In 1973, he won the Martin Luther King prize for his book The Forsaken Lover: White Words and Black People. He is the author of None But Our Words and Living Community, Living School. He lives in Sheffield, England.