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Pupil Disaffection

Teachers Researching Disaffection

A summary of aspects of The Norwich Area Schools Consortium (NASC) Project into disaffection and disengagement in secondary schools.

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What was NASC?

The class management cross-school project: factors influencing pupils’ attitude to learning

‘He’s not my sort of teacher. He’s like a Duracell battery, he just goes on and on.’

Gives details of a survey of 700+ pupils in 5 secondary schools about some of the factors that influence their attitude to learning. The results indicate that as well as gender and age differences, there are subject, school and teacher effects.

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Other UK research on disaffection

European perspectives on pupil disaffection

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