Paul Cooper, Mary Jane Drummond, Susan Hart, Jane Lovey and Colleen McLaughlin are all members of staff at the School of Education, University of Cambridge.

• 1.Introducing the Positive Alternatives to School Exclusion project 2.Anne Fine primary school 3.Virginia Woolf High School (1) 4.Virginian Woolf High School (2) 5.T.S. Eliot High School 6.Ogden Nash upper school 7.William Shakespeare upper school 8.Rudyard Kipling Further Education College 9.Using insights from the case studies: frameworks for understanding and developing practice 10.Making human sense: the importance of personal experience 11.Research as development

Winner of the 2001 TES-NASEN Academic Book Award 'The book offers something to everyone. It reports an interesting research project in a way which is academically reputable, yet is written in an accessible style. It deals with the immediate issues facing schools and teachers and presents case studies to which practitioners can relate.' - Alan Dyson, Chair of the NASEN of Judging Panel 2001'This will have been of immense value to schools involved, and the findings should be more widely useful.' - Gary Thomas, Times Educational Supplement