Educating Children and Young People in Care: Learning Placements and Caring Schools

by Sonia Jackson, Claire Cameron, Graham Connelly

Children and young people in care rarely match the academic achievements of their peers and policy and procedures to address this inequality have not yet remedied the problem.

Drawing on ideas from social pedagogy, the authors present a new approach - learning placements and caring schools. They show that education and care must be considered integral to both out of home placements and schools. Packed with practice examples, it includes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849053650
• ISBN13: 9781849053655
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"