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Teaching Adolescent AD/HD Boys Through Self-sufficient Reward Control: A Sociological Investigation
Author(s): Lee Partridge (Author)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 172 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773438084
- ISBN-13: 9780773438088
Book Description
This book deals with a symbolic interactionist framework and grounded theory methodology in the generation of a substantive theory regarding how adolescent boys diagnosed with AD/HD respond to the efforts of their teachers who employ rewards and punishments to moderate their actions.
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About the Author
Dr. Partridge holds a B.Sc. (Hons), Graduate Diploma of Education and a Doctor of Education from the University of Western Australia. Her interest in AD/HD developed during her time as a secondary school science teacher. Intrigued by community reaction and teacher’ responses to AD/HD, she made the search for a greater understanding of the phenomenon the focus of her doctoral research.
