How and Why Children Fail

Herausgeber: Varma, Ved P

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781853021862
• ISBN-10: 1853021865
• Artikelnr.: 23588140

Autorenporträt

Dr Ved Varma is a former educational psychologist.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Ved P Varma. 1. Creativity and Underfunctioning: some consequences for society
Robin Higgins
MB
BCh (Cambridge)
DPM
BMus Consultant Child Psychiatrist
London. 2. Fear and Underachievement
Herb Etkin
St Francis Hospital
Sussex. 3. Boredom
High Ability and Achievement
Joan Freeman
Consultant Psychiatrist
London. 4. Limited Intelligence and School Failure
Michael J A Howe
University of Exeter. 5. Confusion and Underfunctioning in Children
Kedar Nath Dwivedi
Consultant Child
Adolescent and Family Psychiatrist
Northampton. 6. The Effects of Physical Illness
Philip Barker
Professor of Child Psychiatry
Calagary. 7. The Effects of Child Abuse
Philip Barker. 8. The Child from the Chaotic Family
Philip Barker. 9. Racial Prejudice and Achievment
Gerry German
Community Relations Commission. 10. The Lack of Proper Social Relationships in Childhood Failure
Clive R Hollin
University of Birmingham. 11. Gender and Failure; a motivational perspective
Colin Rogers
Lecturer in Education
Lancaster University. 12. Inappropriate Curricula
Teaching Methods and Underfunctioning
Carl Parsons
Christ Church College
Canterbury. 13. The Dyslexic Child
Robert Povey
MA
PhD
C Psychol
FBPsS
Educational Psychologist
and Janet Tod
Christ Church College
Canterbury.