Alan Share

Gebundenes Buch

Death of a Nightingale

With Ispy Edited by Jan Woolf

Beschreibung

A book for today and tomorrow About 100 special schools have been closed in the UK since 1997. Another, Brighouse School in Westborough, is threatened with closure. An international consensus that children with special educational needs have the right to be educated in mainstream schools drives this policy. But what if it is not such a good idea? What if it is just a flawed and expensive social experiment that is good for some children but bad for others, fine in the libraries of the mind, but not in the classrooms of the real world? What if lawyers asserting human rights enjoy the fruits of Utopia whereas everyone else has just a partial glimpse of it? What if academia is leading its students down a blind alley? And maybe the system of goverment is wanting, too. What if mistakes and misconceptions here help to explain what is wrong elsewhere and also threaten other things that we treasure? And what if the rising generation is illequiped to meet the new challenges of the twenty first century? No-one should ignore these questions.

Autor

For over 17 years a governor of a special school for children with a physical difficulty and an associated learning difficulty, chair of governors for most of that time.A degree in Jurisprudence at Merton College, Oxford. A barrister, practiced for only three years and left the Bar to work for the Liberal Party in London. After that headed up and grew a retail furniture company in NE England. Active in his trade association, played a lead role in the design of Flammability labels for sofas. A director of the British Shops and Stores Association and chair of a nationwide committee that set up the Qualitas Conciliation for the Furniture and Carpet Industry, now the Furniture Ombudsman.He was chair of the board of a residential care home in Newcastle for twenty years. In recent years chair of TYDFAS, the Newcastle branch of the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies, now the Arts Society.A member of his local Rotary Club, seeing this book and his involvement in Special Needs as acts of Rotary service.His wife Ros, with degrees in languages, psychology and law, and for many years volunteering her time in the Tribunal Unit of Sunderland Citizens Advice Bureau, shares his values and adds breadth and depth to them. They have travelled widely, enjoy music and the arts and are never, ever bored.If Great Britain had surrendered to Hitler, his life would have ended long ago in a gas chamber along with millions of others. Were it not for the medical profession and the NHS he would not be here today. Were it not for his teacher his life would not have been so rewarding. He sees Death of a Nightingale as a way of expressing his thanks.In June 2008 "Featured Author" of the month - Oxford Alumni and Blackwell publishers

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Author Solutions Inc
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9781468585537
• ISBN-10: 1468585533
• Artikelnr.: 36062528