Managing and Improving School Attendance and Behaviour

<p>This new book on school attendance and behaviour brings an international flavour to the field, with contributions on some of the latest empirical research and thinking from around the world. It includes contributions from Canada and the USA, Hong Kong, Europe, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Some of the interesting, wide-ranging, and often unique topics covered in the book include: truancy and well-being, disaffection, pupil absenteeism, social mediation, aggression in primary schools, bullying, emotional barriers to learning, behaviour management training, exclusion, reintegration, the role of educational psychologists, and ethnic diversity and classroom disruption in the context of migration policies.</p><p>The book should prove both helpful and useful for a wide range of professionals, students, and academics, across a wide range of educational, care, and social policy disciplines. This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Educational Studies. </i></p> <p>Managing and improving school attendance and behaviour: new approaches and initiatives<i> </i>Introduction<i> </i>1. Truancy and well-being among secondary school pupils in England<i> </i>2. What predicts disaffection in Irish primary schools?<i> </i>3. Pupil absenteeism and the educational psychologist 4. Truancy: a look at definitions in the USA and other territories<i> </i>5. Rebuilding attendance practices with youth: the role of social mediation<i> </i>6. Aggression in primary schools: the predictive power of the school and home environment<i> </i>7. Constructing bullying in Ontario, Canada: a critical policy analysis<i> </i>8. Working with schools in identifying and overcoming emotional barriers to learning<i> </i>9. Some possible effects of behaviour management training on teacher confidence and competence: evidence from a study of primary school teachers in Hong Kong<i> </i>10. Promoting resilience through adversity: increasing positive outcomes for expelled students<i> </i>11. Factors affecting successful reintegration<i> </i>12. The relationship between ethnic diversity and classroom disruption in the context of migration policies </p>