Analysing Underachievement in Schools

by Emma Smith

Overview

Emma Smith examines the 'crisis' of falling standards and failing students and urges a re-evaluation of the underachievement debate

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826475657
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/01/2005
Series:	Empirical Studies in Education
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Emma Smith is Lecturer in Education at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Underachievement in context
Part 1: Underachievement: An international perspective2. The falling nations debate3. Reconsidering international comparisons
Part 2: Falling standards and failing pupils? 4. Failing boys and moral practices5. Reevaluating underachievement6. Underachieving working class boys?
Part 3: Understanding underachievement
7. Reconceptualising 'underachievement'8. Recommendations for practice