The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: Nurture Groups in School and at Home: Connecting with Children with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, Paul Cooper

Nurture Groups in School and at Home: Connecting with Children with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties

Paul Cooper

This book explores the ways in which pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties can be effectively engaged in schooling - either in school or at home. It explains the social and emotional underpinnings of learning and presents practical strategies for aiding engagement.

Nurture groups, originally devised and implemented in the 1970s, are specially designed classes that cater for pupils having difficulties in adjusting to the requirements of mainstream classrooms. Paul Cooper and Yonca Tiknaz present evidence of the success of nurture groups from the perspectives of the children participating in them, their parents and school staff members who manage nurture groups in schools, and examine what factors affect the success of the group. From this they draw key messages for effective practice, including the fundamental importance of recognising a child's emotional needs and meeting them, and the pivotal role of the relationship between the teaching staff co-ordinating the group.

Nurture Groups in School and at Home will provide essential information and accessible advice for teaching professionals running nurture groups in schools and for parents and carers running them at home.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
  • Publish Date: Mar 1st, 2007
  • Pages: 160
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.04in - 6.24in - 0.42in - 0.54lb
  • EAN: 9781843105282
  • Categories: Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects

More books to explore

Book Cover for: Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World, Douglas Mulhall
Book Cover for: Education and Equality, Danielle Allen
Book Cover for: The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values, Brian Christian
Book Cover for: Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides, Geoffrey L. Cohen
Book Cover for: Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides, Geoffrey L. Cohen
Book Cover for: Show Them You're Good: A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College, Jeff Hobbs
Book Cover for: In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems, Giorgio Parisi
Book Cover for: The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action, Cathryn Berger Kaye
Book Cover for: The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now, Anya Kamenetz
Book Cover for: Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy, Tressie McMillan Cottom
Book Cover for: Colour Matters: Essays on the Experiences, Education, and Pursuits of Black Youth, Carl E. James
Book Cover for: Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation, Roosevelt Montás
Book Cover for: The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups, Leonard Sax
Book Cover for: Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity, Lisa M. P. Munoz
Book Cover for: Unflattening, Nick Sousanis

About the Author

Cooper, Paul: - Paul Cooper is Professor of Education at the School of Education, University of Leicester, UK. Paul is also Co-chair of ENSEC, and the ENSEC representative at the European Centre for Educational Resilience and Socio-Emotional Health, University of Malta.
Cooper, Paul: - Paul Cooper is Professor of Education at the School of Education, University of Leicester, UK. Paul is also Co-chair of ENSEC, and the ENSEC representative at the European Centre for Educational Resilience and Socio-Emotional Health, University of Malta.

More books by Paul Cooper

Book Cover for: Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline, Paul Cooper
Book Cover for: Pump Handbook, Igor J. Karassik
Book Cover for: Educating Children with AD/HD: A Teacher's Manual, Paul Cooper
Book Cover for: From Trauma To Triumph: The Pocket Sergeant Journey, Paul Cooper
Book Cover for: Change Agent Nation: Create change in your neighborhood...or across the world, Paul Cooper
Book Cover for: The Perpetrators, Paul Cooper
Book Cover for: Conceptualist Landscapes: An Alternative Way to Design Gardens, Paul Cooper
Book Cover for: Southern Steam Swansong: The Final Years 1964-67, Paul Cooper
Book Cover for: Yorkshire Dialect in the Nineteenth Century: Enregisterment, Authenticity, and Identity, Paul Cooper

Praise for this book

I would recommend this as a useful book for all Educational Psychology Service libraries and, if you can, get schools, who are nurturing, innovative and who put the emotional health of their children and families before results, to read it too.--Debate
The gentle pace of the book does not detract from its clear message: there is no blame; no fault; only unhappy children and desperate parents and teachers. Each chapter is clearly defined and the main points summarised, making its content accessible. Indeed, one of the book's greatest strengths is the importance placed on the role of the carer and professional working together and not in isolation. I would have no hesitation in recommending it to any adult involved with nurture groups of interested in the underpinning principles of how a child learns.--Community Care
The book provides essential information and advice for teaching professionals who run nurture groups and for carers running them at home. I would have no hesitations in recommending it to any dult involved with nurture groups or interested in the underpinning principles of how a child learns.--Community Care
I was impressed by the book's structure and accessible format at each chapter is succintly introduced and summarised, easing the reader's ability to make sense of the concepts. Any therapists working alongside schools in supporting youn people with mental health problems, this book has much to offer.--Children, Young People & Families
Back in the 1970s someone came up with a very good idea; provide specially-designed classes for students who have difficulty adjusting to the mainstream, staff the classes with techers trained in nurturing and meeting the needs of these special students, and engage a range of educators, parents, and peers to create a supportive environment that is student-centred. According to Cooper (education, U. of Leicester} and Tiknaz {rising educational achievement, U. of Leicester) such nurture groups are effective in the classroom and in the home at bringing children with social, emotional, and behavioural needs closer to accepting educational and other experiences. Writing for educators and parents, they describe nuture groups and what school staff about them, the role of caring people in nurture groups, selection of students for groups, research indications, models for analyzing problems situations and key messages for practitioners.--BookNews.com