Inaura Resources

Key research and other publications since 1999

Books and research

  • Complete guide to managed moves as an alternative to permanent exclusion (2007) download or buy
    Research report: Managed Moves in England (2007) download
    Preventing Exclusion (1999) Preview on Google

Recent

  • Letter to Times Educational Supplement October 9th 2009  read the letter ...      read the article ... 
  • Preface to: Carl Parsons (2009) Strategic Alternatives to Exclusion from School, Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books    more ...
  • Excluding children from school only passes on the problem The Times, London, June 24, 2009 read it ... 

Articles in the Times Educational supplement All available here... 

  • Bridge over troubled exclusion issue
    Since I was quoted in your article on managed moves ("Ministers' boasts on fall in exclusions is challenged", September 25), I would like to set the record straight. You stated correctly that the Department for ...
    Published on 9 October 2009
  • Ministers' boasts on fall in exclusions is challenged
    The conference will take place in London on November 12. WHAT HEADS SAY Quotes from Adam Abdelnoor's survey -
    Published on 25 September 2009
  • Dignity for pupils, peace for schools
    But none of the 14 pupils involved in managed moves interviewed as part of the Inaura research felt they had a choice in the matter. So while progress is being made, Inaura argues there is a still long way to ...
    Published on 18 January 2008
  • Managed moves cut exclusions to zero
    Success depends on schools, parents and at-risk pupils agreeing on a fresh start. William Stewart reports. Permanent exclusions could virtually disappear within a decade, an expert predicted this week - if local ...
    Published on 16 September 2005
  • Expulsion pain
    The difference between managed moves and permanent exclusion is like the difference between having a root canal filling or extraction without anaesthetic ("Exclusion? That's just so 2004", TES, February 4). Managed moves are not ...
    Published on 18 February 2005
  • Exclusion 'promotes bad behaviour'
    PUPILS excluded from school become even more aggressive, new research suggests. The study, conducted in the US, also indicates that exclusion leads to a reduction in intelligence and the ability to reason ...
    Published on 10 May 2002
  • Slough aims for zero intolerance
    Education minister believes pupil-referral tag may send out the wrong message as schools meet exclusion targets SLOUGH aims to be the first council in the country not to exclude a single child in the school year ...
    Published on 8 March 2002
  •  Tea and chat helps you to work better
    BEING too busy to chat in the staffroom is increasing stress and undermining teachers' performance, a new report has found. Staff who attended focus groups held by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers last ...
    Published on 14 September 2001
  • Five days that shape our world
    In-service training needs a long-overdue rethink, says Adam Abdelnoor The loud cheers that followed Kenneth Baker's promise in the late Eighties to give teachers five non-contact days in every school year almost ...
    Published on 17 August 2001
  • Snapshot of Newham
    "None of our children attends Eleanor Smith full time. They come for between one and four days a week - sometimes just for a term or two. But usually they spend most of their time here to start with, and we gradually move them to ...
    Published on 7 April 2000
  • Self-esteem is not just for children: Letters
    ADAM Abdelnoor hits the nail firmly on the head (TES, October 22). Raising the self-esteem of children is fundamental for their well-being and capacity to learn. But the self-esteem of ...
    Published on 5 November 1999
  • Are you a keepemin or a kickemout?
    Adam Abdelnoor is a chartered psychologist specialising in working with excluded children and the management of change for inclusion. His book 'Preventing exclusions' is published by Heinemann on November 5. ...
    Published on 29 October 1999
  • Inclusion buck stops with you: Another Voice
    Have you ever been shouted at by the boss, and then gone home to kick the cat? We cannot strike out at the machine, but we can exclude the immediate problem. This is not laying blame. It is simply ...
    Published on 22 October 1999
  • Let's have equality in mental health care; Letter
    IT was a great relief to read the articles by Chris Bunting and Adam Abdelnoor exposing the problem of children's mental health (TES, June 25). There is a dismal lack of care for children with ...
    Published on 9 July 1999
  • Discard bad plans, not sad children: Another Voice
    But permanently excluded children are told to stay away. Most non-attenders can understand these simple mechanics of "successful school avoidance", but can we appreciate the irony? ...
    Published on 25 June 1999  
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