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How and Why Children Fail

  • ISBN-13: 9781853021862
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • Edited by Ved P Varma
  • Price: AUD $62.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/06/1993
  • Format: Paperback (235.00mm X 158.00mm) 224 pages Weight: 344g
  • Categories: Psychiatry [MMH]
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The authors explore the reasons for a child's failure from a range of disciplines. Topics covered include social influences as well as emotional, physical and psychological factors. Almost all of us underfunction at one time or another, in our health, at home, in school, in our work or in all these and other areas as well. Since our childhood is the period during which we develop most rapidly, it is likely that underfunctioning is especially prevalent in children. Afraid, bored, confused and underfunctioning mentally, socially and physically, they fall short, and their failure is sometimes not even noticed. This book, by an international team of experts in the field, is a rare search for answers to the question why and how children fail.
Fear and underfunctioning, Herb Etkin; boredom and underfunctioning, Joan Freeman; confusion and underfunctioning in children, Kedar Nath Dwivedi; the effects of physical illness, Philip Barker; problems experienced by children who lack basic skills and abilities, Mike Howe; the role of social relationships in accounting for underfunctioning, Clive Hollin; the child from the chaotic family, Philip Barker; the effects of child abuse, Philip Barker; racial prejudice and underfunctioning, Gerry German; gender and failure - a motivational perspective, Colin Rogers; the dyslexic child, Robert Povey and Janet Tod; inappropriate curricula, teaching methods and underfunctioning, Carl Parsons; creativity and underfunctioning - some consequences for the society, R.N.T. Higgins.
`The problems experienced within the school environment by children with a variety of challenges, (social, emotional, cultural and specifically eduacational) are well explored, as are compounding factors inherent in the education system of Great Britain.'
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