- RU 857/2
- Series
- c 1970
Part of Learning Disabilities Archive
This study was carried out in the early 1980s of the experience of school-leaving by pupils in Special Education from Tayside. The research adopted an ethnographic approach. Extensive participant observation by several field workers was carried out in schools, colleges, hospital wards, adult training centres and other institutions over a two year period yielding several volumes of field-notes. In addition almost 300 wide-ranging, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the young people themselves, their parents, and the many professionals (teachers, care workers, careers officers, social workers, nurses) involved in the leaving process, all of which are fully transcribed. c 33 were residents of Strathmartine
Stephen A. Richardson, David May, David Hughes And James Hogg