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Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-212) and index.
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Research methods: hearing what pupils say -- The sample and method -- Ethical issues with pupils -- Informed consent? -- Listening to children -- Institutionalizing ethics -- Prescriptive versus descriptive approaches -- Real consent -- The role of the researcher -- The boundaries of confidentiality -- Responsibility, accountability and democratic control -- Submission? Pupils' attitudes to school -- Formative stages? -- Finding the positives -- Rites of passage of a kind -- The demands of school -- Control and disorder -- The routine of school -- Pupils' perceptions of the purpose of school -- What purpose? -- The social context -- Outcomes or judgements? -- Reasons for being in school? -- From work in school to paid work -- Nostalgia or regret? The summary experience -- The past is another country? -- Looking back on experiences -- Regrets, personal; and institutional -- The central part of life -- Happier days? -- The subject of the curriculum -- The National Curriculum as a necessity -- The given core -- Subjects and knowledge -- Usefulness and utility -- Skills learnt in school: for use or survival? -- The monument of knowledge -- What should be learnt? -- Formal and personal skills -- What are 'key' skills? -- Skills of schools and skills of living -- The most essential skill -- Experiencing school: learning about relationships -- The essential learning -- The anti-social undercurrents of schools -- The social atmosphere of learning -- Waiting for something to happen -- All that remains unnoticed -- The seeking of challenges -- The half-hidden malaise of school -- Culpable witness -- Pupils' relationship with teachers -- The role of teachers -- The dominance of being taught -- The psychological absence of teachers -- Fairness and unfairness -- The inner curriculum of teaching -- Teacher dependency -- Teachers as roles, teachers as people -- The learning styles of pupils -- Teaching styles and learning styles -- Groups, gangs and tribes -- Learning to survive -- Working together or in competition -- The temptations of groups -- Avoiding routines -- The pleasures of collaboration -- School and life beyond -- Rites of passage -- Do schools connect? -- School as employment -- The ambivalent security of school -- The exposure to the job market -- The social context of school.
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School children--Great Britain--Attitudes
Education, Secondary--Aims and objectives--Great Britain