ABSTRACT

First published in 1997, this study is an attempt to read and critique answers to that question, answers offered in policy and provision, and answers to those answers, in talk and texts, and in classroom performances, an often fraught ‘conversation’ which goes on in spirals.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|35 pages

Academic literature on Travellers

chapter 2|17 pages

Schools, childhood and Travellers

chapter 3|29 pages

Theory and methodology

chapter 4|43 pages

The discursive domain of Travellers

chapter 5|29 pages

Introducing St Donat’s

chapter 6|30 pages

Classroom talk and action

chapter 7|29 pages

The classroom concluded

chapter 8|31 pages

Teachers’interview talk

chapter 9|34 pages

The routes of resistance

chapter 10|13 pages

Conclusions and recommendations