1st Edition
Therapeutic Education Working alongside troubled and troublesome children
246 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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The role of therapy in schools is a topic that has been significantly under-researched and often overlooked. Considering the number of students in full-time education with serious emotional and behavioural difficulties, the skills and tricks used by therapists can be usefully passed on to teachers in the classroom.
This book traces a substantial four-year project that applied the principles of... Read more
1. The human face of education 2. Behavioural graffitti: ignoring the writing on the wall 3. Education: an adventure or a nightmare? 4. Who am I? Schooling, care and 'looked after' children 5. A curriculum for life? 6. Case study and grounded research 7. Measuring the effectiveness of holistic or ecosystemic interventions 8. The real alternative to an 'Alternative curriculum' in action 9. Achievement and lifelong learning: a principled approach 10. Putting it all together, together
Biography
Russell Joseph
'This is a worthwhile book developing alternative ideas for working with troubled adolescents. Such ideas also have a place in our thinking about mainstream education'
- Escalate
