Janet Y. Thomas

Educating Drug-Exposed Children (eBook, PDF)

The Aftermath of the Crack-Baby Crisis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to use teachers' experiences to understand how prenatal drug exposure affects children's' development, and how social construction of the problem influences perceptions within schools.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135933265
• Artikelnr.: 42725552

Autorenporträt

Janet Y. Thomas is on the faculty in the Department of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Rutgers, Camden.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part I: Poor Urban Drug-Abusing Women and Crack Babies 2.
The Policy Paradox: Responding to Prenatal Substance Abuse 3. Crack Babies
and Developmental Outcomes: What Has the Research Taught Us? 4. The
Politics of At Risk: Drug-Exposed Children and Educational Policy Part II:
Educating Drug-Affected Children 5. Identifying a Cracked Foundation:
Teacher Observations 6. Healing the Crack in their World: Education and
Drug-Impacted Children Index