Service integration in schools : : research and policy discourses, practices and future prospects / / edited by Joan Forbes and Cate Watson.

• TeilnehmendeR: Forbes, Joan,; Watson, Cate,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This is an important and timely collection in which recent research and interpretations are reported and debated. The papers provide a scholarly analysis of a range of significant issues, complexities and recurring themes. They provide theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives on what is involved in co-working and explore the ambiguities, contradictions and fragmentations in a new policy area that cuts across the remits previously held by a number of government departments. Overall, the papers provide a considered and wide-ranging critique of the key research and policy discourses that seek to influence the reformation of services and to remodel interprofessional and interagency working practices. In particular, the collection examines the ways in which the integration of services is operating in practice in the discrete policy contexts of the UK countries; the leadership and management of collaborative working and workforce remodelling; and whether, in addressing the hard questions of the form/s that future school services should take, there are any ‘global solutions’ from new research or from other places that might fruitfully be applied. In addressing these policy developments the collection has multiple readerships in mind and seeks to be both academic and policy relevant.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Joan Forbes and Cate Watson -- Research Directions in the Discourses of Interprofessionalism / Michael Cowie -- Learning How to Collaborate? Promoting Young People’s Health through Professional Partnership in Schools / Janet Shucksmith , Kate Philip , Jennifer Spratt and Cate Watson -- Joining Up Working: Terms, Types and Tensions / Elspeth Mccartney -- After the Break? Interrupting the Discourses of Interprofessional Practice / Julie Allan -- Creative Tensions in Service Integration / Roy Mcconkey -- Service Integration in Schools: The Scottish Scene and the Implications for Teachers / Ian Menter -- Communicating, Co-ordinating and Connecting: Integrated Service Provision in Northern Ireland / Anne Moran , Lesley Abbott and Una O’Connor -- Every Child Matters: The Implications for Service Integration in England / Gillian Pugh -- Research Directions in Leading and Managing Collaborative Practice / Deirdre Martin -- Learning Leadership in Multiagency Work for Integrating Services into Schools / Paul Warmington , Harry Daniels , Anne Edwards , Jane Leadbetter , Deirdre Martin , David Middleton , Steve Brown , Anna Popova and Apostol Apostolov -- Leadership and Capacity in the Public Sector: Integrated Children’s Services and Schools / David Brown -- Education Policy and the ‘Inter’-Regnum / David Hartley -- Future School Services, ‘Global Solutions’ / Audrey Hendry -- Modernising and Remodelling Schools: Are There ‘Global Solutions’ to Transforming the School Workforce? / Graham Butt and Helen Gunter -- Mythical Spaces and Social Imaginaries: Looking for the Global in the Local in Narratives of (Inter)Professional Identification / Cate Watson -- The Conditions for Inter-Professional Learning: The Centrality of Relationship / Jon Nixon -- Index / Joan Forbes and Cate Watson.