Therapeutic education : working alongside troubled and troublesome children / John Cornwall and Craig Walter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cornwall, John, senior lecturer

Contributor:

Walter, Craig.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children with social disabilities--Education--Great Britain.

Children with social disabilities.

Children with social disabilities--Education.

Great Britain.

Problem children--Education--Great Britain.

Problem children.

Problem children--Education.

Physical Description:

vii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

Despite much research into the role of therapy in schools, many professionals agree the needs of troubled pupils are often not being adequately met by their educational institution. Considering the number of students in full time education with significant emotional and behavioural difficulties, some strategies and skills used by therapists can be usefully shared by teachers. Schools can develop therapeutic approaches to learning.

This fascinating book traces a substantial four-year research and school development programme that practically applied the principles of 'therapeutic education', and exposes how current educational contexts actually contribute to disaffection and the disruption of young people's learning.

The authors present a well-tested practical model of school and curricular experience, based on therapeutic relationships, that has led to outstanding positive results in school development. With suggestions throughout for tried and tested strategies that really work, this book can help professionals transform troubled young people's experience of education - from the nightmare it can be into an adventure with positive results for lifelong learning.

Teachers, educational psychologists, counsellors and anyone working with children or young people will find this important book an enlightening and invaluable read.

Contents:

Introduction : the human face of education

Behavioural graffiti : ignoring the writing on the wall

Education : adventure or a nightmare?

Who am I? : identity, agency and resilience

A curriculum for life?

The case study and grounded research

Measuring the effectiveness of holistic and ecosystemic interventions

A real alternative to an 'alternative curriculum'?

Achievement and lifelong learning : a 'principled' approach

Putting it all together, together.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [224]-231) and index.

ISBN:

0415366615

0415366623

0203019296

OCLC:

61448046

Publisher Number:

9780415366618 (hbk)

9780415366625 (pbk)

9780203019290 (ebk)