1st Edition
Changing Schools Pupil Perspectives on Transfer to a Comprehensive
194 Pages
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Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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Changing schools at 11 or 12+ is a critical, often traumatic event in a pupil’s career. Earlier studies had looked at this transitional stage from the schools’ point of view, in the light of institutional aims and objectives. Originally published in 1984, this richly detailed and readable study looks at it from the pupils’ point of view: it illustrates their perceptions of the transfer, their... Read more
Authors’ Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1: Last Term at Middle School 1. Identities at Risk 2. Being Eased In Part 2: First Term at ‘High Town’: Provisional Adaptations 3. Initial Fronts 4. Making Friends Part 3: Second Term: Renegotiations 5. An Attempted Coup 6. Growing Pains Part 4: Third Term: Consolidated Adaptations 7. Making Space 8. Deviance, Conformity and Knife-Edging Part 5: Conclusion 9. Theoretical and Policy Implications. Appendix: The Origin of Current Transfer Points. References. Index.
Biography
Lynda Measor, Peter Woods
