First published in 1981. Based on a three-year study of children moving into special ESN-M education in an English city in the mid-1970s, this book questions the whole concept of mild educational subnormality by examining the criteria according to which professionals make decisions to place children within this stigmatised category. It suggests that the beliefs that the professionals hold about the behavioural, family and class characteristics of the children help to determine their judgements, and that these beliefs are related to their own position within the social structure.
- ISBN10 0710006977
- ISBN13 9780710006974
- Publish Date March 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 October 2009
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Law Book Co of Australasia
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 400
- Language English