Feeling Real:

‘it’s like putting my hand through a wall into another world’.

By Leigh Burrows (PhD).
ISBN: 978-1-921214-92-9 9 B5 250pp
AUD $75.00 + p&p.

Helping an ‘unreachable’ and ‘uneducable’ boy with autism develop a sense of self through drawing on different ways of knowing: a holistic-relational approach.

About

Leigh has worked in a variety of roles in the areas of domestic violence, Steiner education, special education, learning and behavior supports and student wellbeing. She is currently working as a lecturer in the School of Education, as well as providing consultancy advice to government departments in relation to vulnerable young people and families and counselling support to young people experiencing school-related difficulties.

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Reviews

‘This study has much to say about the nature of education and schooling in the 21st century’.... (the author) ‘has made a huge and brave commitment to working in the most difficult of cases ... the underlying principle of the research as intervention is that it places as central the relationship between professionals and their clients.’

Professor Tom Billington
Professor of Educational and Child Psychology,
Director of the Centre for the Study of Children, Families and Learning Communities Sheffield University.

‘profoundly inspirational’.... ‘a rare synthesis of academic rigour and popular accessibility’....’provides a defensible and thorough critical analysis of the problem of mainstreaming children who are different’.... ‘a promising pathway that provides hope to many children and parents who do not respond positively to mainstream cognitive behaviouristic education models.’

Dr Patricia Sherwood
Adjunct researcher at Edith Cowan University
Lecturer in social work, psychology, social science, and special education.

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