Books written by Sally Tomlinson

The Assessment of Special Educational Needs: Whose Problem?

Sharron (1985) reviewed a number of cases which, he argued, suggest that the flow of information to parents may be manipulated in ways that undermine their power to make informed decisions. Research recently carried out into the ...
Education in a Post-Welfare Society

Yates, L. (1985) Is girl-friendly schooling really what girls need?, in R. Deem, L. Kant and M. Cruikshank (eds) Girl-friendly Schooling. London: Methuen. Young, D. (1990) The Enterprise Years. London: Headline Publishing.
The Assessment of Special Educational Needs: Whose Problem?

The overarching modelof professional involvementin special education was neatly capturedby Kirp in1983, who,after comparing the situation in the USAandthe UK, wrote that: the modelofprofessionalism involved in theUKis essentiallya ...
A Sociology of Special and Inclusive Education: Exploring the manufacture of inability

A Sociology of Special and Inclusive Education brings sociological perspectives to bear on the social, political and economic policies and practices that comprise special and inclusive education, and the education of lower attainers.
Ignorant Yobs?: Low Attainers in a Global Knowledge Economy

... E.J., Technical Education and the State since 1850. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Walker, P. (2012) 'Anti-disabled abuse fuelled by benefit cuts', The Guardian, 6 February. Weiss, L. (1990) Working class without work.
School Effectiveness for Whom?

This book provides a critique of this research genre, particularly in the light of the recent calls for teaching to go 'back to the basics'.
A Sociology of Special Education (RLE Edu M)

Forward Trends , vol . 7 , no . 4 . WARNOCK REPORT , see Special Educational Needs ( 1978 ) . WEATHERLEY , R. , and LIPSKY , M. ( 1977 ) , ' Street level bureaucrats and institutional innovation – implementing special education reform ' ...
The Politics of Race, Class and Special Education: The selected works of Sally Tomlinson

Fuchs, D. and Fuchs, L. (1994) The inclusive schools movement and the radicalization of special education reform, ... School and Families Committee (2010) Young people not in education employment or training (8th report 2009–2010) ...
School Effectiveness for Whom?: Challenges to the School Effectiveness and School Improvement Movements

A collection of essays that challenge the school effectiveness and school improvement movements. Particular criticism is levelled at the disassociation of what goes on in schools from the world at large.
Special Education and Social Interests (RLE Edu M)

The protective philosophy was closely related to the philosophy of compassion. One wanted to take care of the mentally retarded in order to protect them from a cruel and uncomprehending world. It was easy to sustain this protective ...
EBOOK: Race and Education

Series Editor: David Gladstone Published titles Comparative Social Policy: Theory and Research Patricia Kennett Education ... Reconceptualizing Social Policy: Sociological Perspectives on Contemporary Social Policy Amanda Coffey Social ...
School Effectiveness for Whom?

GERWITZ, S., BALL, S.J. and BOWE, R. (1995) Markets, Choice and Equity in Education, Buckingham: Open University Press. ... and teachers: Problems in teacher supply retention and morale', in GRACE, G. and LAWN, M. (eds) Teacher Supply ...
Educational Subnormality: A Study in Decision-Making

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 ...
A Sociology of Special and Inclusive Education: Exploring the Manufacture of Inability

This title brings sociological perspectives to bear on the social, political and economic policies and practices that comprise special and inclusive education, and the education of lower attainers.
Colonial Immigrants in a British City: A Class Analysis

And, finally, how far does the class-consciousness of the British social classes exclude the immigrant as a potential ... of putting to use in the West Indian context any capital or skills which they had acquired in British cities.
Ignorant Yobs?: Low Attainers in a Global Knowledge Economy

Sultana, R.G. (1998) 'Education and social cohesion in a micro-state', Education and Society, 16/1:3–14. ... Malta: PEG Ltd. Sultana, R.G. (ed) (2010) Educators of the Mediterranean: up close and personal. Rotterdam: Sense Publications.
The Politics of Race, Class and Special Education: The selected works of Sally Tomlinson

POST-WELFARE. SOCIETY. The following chapter is the Introduction to the second edition of my 2005 book Education in a Post-Welfare Society London. Routledge. pp. 1–12. The book offered a critical overview of education policy over the ...
Special Education and Social Interests

Special Education and Social Interests
Ethnic Relations and Schooling: Policy and Practice in the 1990s

... primary schools , London : Routledge . Verma , G. and Pumfrey , P. ( eds ) ( 1993 ) Cross Curricular Contexts : themes and dimensions in primary schools , London : Falmer . Verma , G. and Pumfrey , P. ( eds ) ( 1993 ) Cross Curricular ...
A Sociology of Special and Inclusive Education: Exploring the manufacture of inability

... book on Special Educational Needs, Inclusion and Diversity, reproduced a ... young people, the notions that education systems should separate out their ... 1980s a centre for gifted students opened at Western Kentucky Campus with the aim ...