Released on = January 29, 2007, 8:21 am

Press Release Author = Emilio A. Anteliz

Industry = Education

Press Release Summary = Title: Teaching Traveller Children: maximising learning
outcomes
by: Patrick Alan Danaher, Phyllida Coombes and Cathy Kiddle
Foreword by Arthur Ivatts, OBE, former HMI for Traveller Education

Press Release Body = Title: Teaching Traveller Children: maximising learning outcomes
by: Patrick Alan Danaher, Phyllida Coombes and Cathy Kiddle
Foreword by Arthur Ivatts, OBE, former HMI for Traveller Education

Price £16.99

156 pages

244 x 170mm

ISBN-13: 978 1 85856 377 0

Due June 2007

Educationists reflect on their professional and personal identities and the
strategies they use to maximise the learning outcomes of Traveller children.
Qualitative interviews with 26 heads of service and teachers in nineteen English
Traveller Education Support Services (TESS) illumine this account. The Services
ranged from metropolitan London and the rural southwest to the industrial midlands
and the regional northwest; the participants ranged from people who had worked in
Traveller education for decades to those new to the field.

The chapters deal with vital elements in the work of TESSs: Traveller education
heads of service and teachers; Traveller sites; government and local education
authorities; schools; and sites of innovative educational practice. The implications
for teachers\' practice and professional development are telling.

Teaching Traveller Children is for Travellers, TESSs, teachers, policy makers and
researchers. It makes a significant and original contribution to both Traveller
education scholarship and research into teachers\' work.

Patrick Alan Danaher is Associate Professor at the University of Southern
Queensland, Australia. Phyllida Coombes is an Independent Scholar in Bundaberg,
Australia. Cathy Kiddle is a teacher, writer and researcher, who formerly led the
Devon Consortium TESS. All the authors are all experienced practitioners.

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Contact Details = Ing. Emilio A. Anteliz
Universidad Central de Venezuela
Facultad de Ingenieria Coordinacion de Extension
Edif. Decanato, piso 2. Ciudad Universitaria
Caracas 1053, Venezuela
Telefonos: (58-212) 605 3132/3138
Fax: (58-212) 605 3140
Email: antelize@ucv.ve Internet: http://it.ing.ucv.ve
Postal Address: Apartado 50361, Caracas 1050. Venezuela