CHAPTER 1 Introduction,- SECTION A STORM, STRESS AND STANDARDS,- CHAPTER 2 From classroom to 'Colditz' via a Learning Support Unit,- CHAPTER 3 A girl who ' squeezed in and out of everywhere',- CHAPTER 4 'Giving up on them': a tale of despair,- SECTION B AGAINST THE TREND IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS,- CHAPTER 5 'Off the differentiation map': why did inclusion fail?,- CHAPTER 6 Constructing a 'disordered' identity in a 'child-centred' school,- CHAPTER 7 Action research, learning and football culture: a successful intervention?,- CHAPTER 8 On the social meaning of throwing a 'wobbly' and the question of survival in a primary classroom,- SECTION C PARENTS AT THE EXTREMITIES,- CHAPTER 9 'We might be losing him',- CHAPTER 10 'That's our boy down to a 'T'',- CONCLUSION,- CHAPTER 11 Promoting inclusion via the creation of democratic learning communities.

A number of case studies about interventions in schools to promote the inclusion of pupils referred to a local authority Educational Psychology Service (EPS) in the north of England are to be found in this book. The aim of the book is to provide accounts which do not shirk from describing 'failures' as well as 'successes'. These are written as 'stories' from the point of view of an educational psychologist and they 'bring alive' the dilemmas of professional practice.