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Book SynopsisSucceeding Together? is an institutional ethnography that analyses front-line accounts from mothers, teachers, and child welfare workers to explore the educational issues facing abused and neglected children outside of foster care.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Collective responsibility for maltreated children -- and its dilemmas Chapter 2: Separate spheres and closed systems: Reporting and communication between schools and child protection Chapter 3: Schools 'disciplining' families' cultural difference - through child protection Chapter 4: Not in the game of maximizing potential: corporate parenthood, policy silence and limited services for children who stay at home Chapter 5: Regulating aspirations: Teachers' responsibility and 'the whole child' Chapter 6: Between labour and love: individualizing teachers' responsibility for the work of care Conclusion: Revisiting the dilemmas of collective responsibility: implications for research, practice and policy Appendix 1: Notes on Methodology and Methods Appendix 2: For whose protection? Gatekeeping, ethics, research review and access in studies of the front-line Appendix 3: Regulation of teachers' work: sources and responsibilities References: Notes
