Barry Dufour

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Nationality British Occupation University Professor		Name Barry Dufour Role Author

Born 3 August 1942 London, England, UK Books Positive Approaches to Disruptive Behaviour in Schools

Barry Dufour is a British academic and author who specializes in the area of education research. He is a visiting professor at De Montfort University, Leicester. In 1973, he co-authored with D. Lawton The New Social Studies in which they outlined their concerns that curricula be developed with age-appropriate schemes. He was the editor of the 1990 book The New Social Curriculum: A Guide to Cross-Curricular Issues which also focused on issues of curricula.

In addition to his work in the field of education, in 1977 he wrote The World of Pop and Rock which Music in Education called "probably the best book yet on the pop industry written for teenagers". He is the older brother of former Libertines drummer Paul Dufour.

Principal books

Lawton, D. and Dufour, B. The New Social Studies, London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1973 (first edition) and 1976 (second edition)

Dufour, B., The World of Pop and Rock, London: Macdonald, 1977

Dufour, B., (ed), New Movements in the Social Sciences and Humanities, London: Temple Smith/Gower, 1982

Dufour, B., (ed), The New Social Curriculum: A Guide to Cross-Curricular Issues, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Breslin, T. and Dufour, B., (eds) Developing Citizens: A Comprehensive Introduction to Effective Citizenship Education in the Secondary School, London: Hodder Murray, 2006

Dufour, B. and Curtis, W., Studying Education: an Introduction to the Key Disciplines in Education Studies, Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2011

Dufour, B., Disruptive Behaviour in Schools: A Critical Introduction, London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2016/2017

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