Overview

This study represents cutting edge thinking and an innovative strategy for approaching gaps in knowledge in the wider fields of sociology and education. Hopefully this work will inspire other researchers to follow on in addressing the social and cultural problems presented by such a complex and little understood diagnosis as ADHD.

Dr Katherine Bilton
Institute of Education
Cambridge University

Prosser has the ability through his writing to make meaningful connections between the individual and the universal. Through his rich images, he is able to weave the threads of an aesthetic (at times spiritual) expression together with a compassionate critical language to achieve a rather wonderful whole cloth. The study comes alive as it unfolds.

Professor Noreen Garman
Institute of Studies in International Education
University of Pittsburgh

This book should be required reading for all politicians, policy makers, medical practitioners and parents who unthinkingly reach for the prescription pad to solve a complex problem. We must get inside the reality of ADHD by understanding it, before attempting to 'fix' it.

John Smyth PhD
Roy F & Joann Cole Mitte Endowed Chair in School Improvement
Texas State University

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Table of Contents

Foreword

PART 1

Introduction

PART 2

The dissertation
The tapestry unfolds...

THE HEM (sections 1-3)

Section 1 - To Find
1.1 A journey begins...
1.2 In a camp by a valley...
1.3 Where Everyman is seen by a stream...
1.4 Himself reflected...
1.5 Pondering unknown lands...
Section 2 - Standing there, surrounding scenes echo
2.1 Secrets of the past...
2.2 And ballads of the bards...
2.3 Stories of Swordsmen...
2.4 And legacies of Lords...
2.5 All showing the power of tales...
2.6 To warn him on his way...
Section 3 - Evening closing in, he starts his trek
3.1 As he goes weaving his own threads...
3.2 Of a special tale...
3.3 With its own secrets to uncover...

THE SCENES (sections 4-6)

Section 4 - See his first confident strides slow
4.1 As he leaves his world’s edge...
4.2 But guided by companions’ candles...
4.3 He continues westward...
4.4 And inward...
4.5 Then eastward...
4.6 Through Many Scenes
4.7 And Toward the Whispering Town...
Section 5 - Seeing the distant Cathedral
5.1 He pauses, lamp in hand, to map his steps...
5.2 Before continuing onward and inward...
5.3 To the north...
5.4 Through many more scenes...
5.5 And in a new land...
5.6 And reflects on his adventure...
Section 6 - As his path winds on he tells of old friends
6.1 William...
6.2 Daniel...
6.3 Steven...
6.4 Renae...
6.5 Jacob...
6.6 Michael...
6.7 Phil...
6.8 And of his own journey toward the Cathedral...

THE CENTRAL PANEL (sections 7-8)

Section 7 - And then, drawing his sword
The growing pains of James McKenzie: A narrative in five chapters...
7.1 He fights for his friends...
7.2 And with the famed...
7.3 To fight for the forming...
7.4 To Fight the formidable spells of Wizards...
7.5 And find the passing of an age...
Section 8 - Reaching the Cathedral he collapses on its steps
8.1 Where he unravels his tale to other pilgrims...
8.2 And the townsfolk gather to hear...
8.3 Inside the Cathedral, he presents to the powerful...
8.4 And Repeats his epic to the players...
8.5 Then, his journey over, he whispers to his peers...
8.6 Before bidding them...
Adieu! ...

PART 3

A journey toward the mythopoetic
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Bibliography