ADHD and schooling: Looking for better ways forward

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the latest term to encapsulate psycho‐medical explanations for fidgety, distractive, impulsive behaviours in children. Practitioners in the medical field contend these behaviours are the result of neurobiological deficit, although there is still strong disagreement about whether the problem is chiefly related to inattention or self‐regulation, whether it is located in the frontal region of the brain or somewhere around the middle, and/or whether it is the product of genetic, environmental, or biopsychosocial causal factors. It is interesting that evolving medical explanations and definitions are noted independently by various contributors to this special issue. Indeed, it seems that the only groups who appear not to notice the conceptual confusion around the ADHD construct are those who stand to benefit by it..