Educational Subnormality: A Study in Decision-Making

by Sally Tomlinson

Book Overview

First published in 1981. Based on a three-year study of children moving into special ESN-M education in an English city in the mid-1970s, this book questions the whole concept of mild educational subnormality by examining the criteria according to which professionals make decisions to place children within this stigmatised category. It suggests that the beliefs that the professionals hold about the behavioural, family and class characteristics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138592560
• ISBN13: 9781138592568
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"