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1. Ignorant Yobs?: Low Attainers in a Global Knowledge Economy

   By Sally Tomlinson

   What happens to young people who are defined as lower attainers or having learning difficulties in a global knowledge economy? How do we stop those with learning difficulties or disabilities being seen as social problems or simply as consumers of resources? Governments in developed countries are...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Special Education and Social Interests (RLE Edu M)

   Edited by Len Barton, Sally Tomlinson

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   Until this book was published, most writing on special education was about specific disabilities and how to cope with them. This book, however, considers the broader context, looking at many problems for the wider system that have arisen through integration of special education within it. The book...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
3. A Sociology of Special Education (RLE Edu M)

   By Sally Tomlinson

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   At the time of original publication, special education in Britain was permeated by an ideology of benevolent humanitarianism and this is ostensibly the moral framework within which the professionals – teachers, educational psychologists, medical officers – operate. The author widens the debate...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
4. School Effectiveness for Whom?

   Edited by Roger Slee, Sally Tomlinson, Gaby Weiner

   School effectiveness research together with what is now described as the 'school improvement movement' (Barber, 1996) has captured both the Conservative and New Labour imaginations as a basis for educational planning and policy making in the UK. Internationally school effectiveness enjoys and...

   Published March 30th 1998 by Routledge