Young Children at School in the Inner City

Barbara Tizard, Peter Blatchford, Jessica Burke, Clare Farquhar, Ian Plewis

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351808972
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

First published in 1988, this work reports on a major British study of children's progress and behaviour in 33 infant schools. The research looks at children from nursery through to junior school and asks why some children had higher attainments and made more progress than others. Using observations not only in schools but also interviews with children and parents, the children's skills on entering school were found to have an important effect on progress. In each school, black and white children, and girls and boys were studied, in order gauge whether gender or ethnicity were related to progress.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• 1 Background to the Study
• 2 Our Research
• 3 The Project Schools: Approaches to Teaching and to Parents
• 4 The Project Schools: Observation of the Children
• 5 The Parents’ Role in Infant Schooling
• 6 School Attainment and Progress: Ethnic Group, Sex, and School Effects
• 7 Factors at Home Associated with Children’s Pre-school Skills and Their Later School Progress
• 8 Factors at School Affecting Progress and Attainment
• 9 The Child’s Point of View
• 10 Progress Through the Infant School: Explanatory Models
• 11 A Summary and Some Implications
• References
• Appendices
• Indices