From "Backwardness" to "At-Risk"

From "Backwardness" to "At-Risk"This book examines the joint effort of twentieth century public school administrators and private philanthropy to initiate reforms to provide for children with learning difficulties. The author explores the development of these reforms from the establishment of special classes for backward children at the beginning of the century to the creation of programs for learning disabled children. He considers what this history tells us about current efforts

Offers a new perspective on how we should conceptualise poverty and how ordinary families and communities responded to that poverty

focussing on the ways in which cultural values came to be embedded in the spaces which people inhabited and made their own

viewing it not only from the vantage point of a more equitable distribution of economic resources but also of fundamental legal

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political poetry

on the basis of sketches made on the spot in Egypt and aided by his excellent memory

This volume contains a translation of

and linguistic interpretation

Essays studying the dominant theme of conflict in cultural

are presented in their archaeological

with a special emphasis on key factors determining almond tree yield potential

they do raise issues of sustainability of free-range production so are also discussed