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The happiest days? : how pupils cope with school / Peter Woods

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Woods, Peter, 1934-
Published
London ; New York : Falmer Press, 1990.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 247 pages)
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Language Note
English.
Restrictions on Access
Open Access Unrestricted online access
Contents
Chapter 1 Establishing Order in the Classroom -- chapter 2 Organizing and Responding to Difference -- chapter 3 Gender Cultures -- chapter 4 Pupils and 'Race' -- chapter 5 Pupil Interests and Strategies -- chapter 6 Pupils at Work -- chapter 7 Laughing at School.
Summary
This debut collection of short stories explores the lives of children and young people who, in the wake of events that alter everything, find themselves split like stone. Familiar emotions - love, jealousy, loneliness - are dissembled and shown anew.
A brilliant collection of short stories from an outstanding new voice in contemporary fiction. Happy days have their souring. In this remarkable debut, Cressida Connolly explores the lives of children and young people who, in the wake of events that alter everything, find themselves split like stone. A conversation on a trip to the zoo - words which can't be clutched back - heralds the end of a family; a boy watches his father fold Aunt Rose in his arms and loses his vocation; in an alarming account of sibling rivalry, a young girl becomes jealous of the attention afforded her dying sister. Each of these finely crafted stories is its own forceful and separate world where familiar emotions - love, loss, jealousy, loneliness - are dissembled and show anew.
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ISBN
0203973275 (electronic bk.)
9780203973271 (electronic bk.)
1850007306
9781850007302
9781850007319
1850007314
1850007314 (Paper)
9781135387259 (e-book)
1135387257
1280174153
9781280174155
9786610174157
6610174156
9781135387266 (e-book)
1135387265
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-238) and index.
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