Absent with Cause

Lessons of Truancy

Roger White

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Routledge
01 November 2024

Truancy & anti-truancy strategies; Organisation & management of education; Secondary schools; Teaching of special educational needs

Series: Routledge Revivals

Originally published in 1980, Absent with Cause, reissued here with a new preface, looks at the Bayswater Centre, which provided full-time education for young people who had stopped attending comprehensive schools, and for whom the alternative may well have been home tuition or residential provision in community homes or assessment centres. By describing what actually happened in a documented year with a whole intake of youngsters, the intention was to probe beneath the label of ‘failure’ to show that a meaningful full-time educational programme could be offered and accepted despite disastrous home backgrounds or a history of complete disenchantment with school. By pointing to the success of an ethos that redefined the three most important educational objectives as Responsibility, Articulation and Relevance, and which actually offered young people a real opportunity to participate in determining their own educational programme, and by reference to other units and schools working along similar lines, the intention was to discuss the implications for state provision. Today it can be read in its historical context.

This book is a re-issue originally published in 1980. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

By: Roger White
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 720g
ISBN: 9781032900711
ISBN 10: 1032900717
Series: Routledge Revivals
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 01 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Adult education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

New Preface for the Reissue. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. Danish Lessons in Practical Education 2. Alternative Provision in Britain 3. A Tale of Two Classrooms: The Rs That Count 4. School Phobias: The Myth of Labelling 5. Autumn Term 6. Ancillary Factors: Resourcefulness, the Fourth R 7. Spring Term 8. Self-Analysis 9. Leaving School: The Final Term 10. Student Involvement 11. Metamorphosis of a School: Three Rs 12. Conclusion: Implications for Mainstream Education. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Schools, Centres and Units Consulted or Visited.

Reviews for Absent with Cause: Lessons of Truancy

Review for the original edition: ‘This is a study of the practice of alternative education, largely based on an examination of the Bayswater Centre in Bristol, and its relationship with a similar Danish institution. The ethnographic accounts of the life and work of the children and staff are quite outstanding; the motivations and concerns of the “problem children” and the determinants of their identity and self-image shine out from the pages in a way that must give powerful illumination to many readers. It demonstrates not only the sociological imagination but also what it can deliver.’ – John Eggleston