Books written by Sheila Riddell

Resolving Disputes about Educational Provision: A Comparative Perspective on Special Educational Needs

With contributions by recognised experts in the field of education law, this book is a comparative study of the resolution of special education disputes, including via mediation.
Gender and the Politics of the Curriculum

Valli, L. 93, 185,226 vocational courses 51, 219, 2-50 V/alden_,. ... 79, 152 women, equal opportunities for 191, 195-8 Women lnto Science and Engineering (WISE) 78', 79, 213 lack of responsibility of 81-2, 85; male teachers' reactions ...
Disabled Students in Higher Education: Perspectives on Widening Access and Changing Policy

Archer, L. (2003) 'Social class and higher education', in L. Archer, M. Hutchingsand A. Ross (eds) Higher Education and SocialClass: Issues of Inclusionand Exclusion, London: RoutledgeFalmer. Archer, L., Hutchings,M. and Ross,A.
Improving Disabled Students' Learning: Experiences and Outcomes

in A. Roulstone and C. Barnes (eds) Working Futures: disabled people, policy and social inclusion, Bristol: Policy Press. Morley, L. (2003) Quality and Power in Higher Education, Maidenhead: SRHE and Open University Press.
Disability, Culture and Identity

Mossand Petrie (1997) describe adominant discourse about children inthe UK, thatsees children astheprivate responsibility of their parents, as passive dependents of parents and recipients of services, and parents as the consumers of ...
Standards of Care and Regulation of Care Services in Scotland

Standards of Care and Regulation of Care Services in Scotland
Autonomy, Rights and Children with Special Educational Needs: Understanding Capacity across Contexts

This books examines the increased prominence of children’s rights in education to ask whether we are witnessing a paradigm shift within the education system. The author uses a wide range...
Higher Education in Scotland and the UK

As discussed above, changes in tuition fees policies in Scotland and England have had little impact on social class ... This is an uncomfortable finding for the Scottish Government, which has based its higher education policy on the ...
Gender, Policy and Educational Change: Shifting Agendas in the UK and Europe

Initiatives and strategies such as WISE, GIST, Chwarae Teg and Opportunity 2000 to improve girls' and women's involvement in education and training and economic participation rates have been implemented ( EOC/Chwarae Teg2 1993; ...
Disability, Culture and Identity

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Improving Disabled Students' Learning: Experiences and Outcomes

What practices and policies work and what challenges do they encounter? How do they view staff and those providing learning support? This book sets out to show how disabled students experience university life today.
Resolving Disputes about Educational Provision: A Comparative Perspective on Special Educational Needs

With contributions by recognised experts in the field of education law, this book is a comparative study of the resolution of special education disputes, including via mediation.
Special Educational Needs

Based on comparisons of Special Educational Needs (SEN) frameworks in Scotland and England, Sheila Riddell questions how justice for children with SEN and their parents may be achieved.
Education, Social Justice and Inter-Agency Working: Joined Up Or Fractured Policy?

Reports from Lewis (1991, 1994) and Holdsworth (1999) indicate that quite young students can engage in this sort of ... may have a clearer awareness of the range and relative merits of community support agencies than their teachers.
Disabled Students in Higher Education: Perspectives on Widening Access and Changing Policy

Ninety-five per cent of institutions in England and Wales and all institutions in Scotland had a disability officer. This was a part-time post in some ... Higher education has been through a period of major change since the mid-1980s.
Gender, Policy and Educational Change: Shifting Agendas in the UK and Europe

This book aims to take an overall look at how significant have been the changes in experiences, aspirations and culture of girls and boys and male and female teachers.
Gender, Policy and Educational Change: Shifting Agendas in the UK and Europe

... still dominated by girls, and Physics, a largely male preserve. Higher Still, although still under discussion at the time of the research, was seen as threatening because the proposed Advanced Higher, taken the year after Highers, ...
Gender and the Politics of the Curriculum

... class home , to account for the problems which schools experience in educating and controlling children . He comments ' this yields an image of the school as a kind of a middle - class lifeboat adrift in a sea of proletarian roughness ...
Special Educational Needs Policy in the 1990s: Warnock in the Market Place

... special educational needs and to highlight some of the consequences of introducing market mechanisms into an area such as SEN. THE. RESEARCH. SO. FAR. The three national questionnaire surveys (1990, 1991, 1992) in conjunction with three ...