Critically Engaged Learning: Connecting to Young Lives (Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society, #42)

by John Smyth, Lawrence Angus, Barry Down, and Peter Mcinerney

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This book - the finale in a trilogy by the authors - traces the way in which a number of disadvantaged schools and communities were able to move beyond deficit, victim-blaming and pathologizing approaches and access resources of trust, relationships, connectedness and hope. It describes how these Australian schools and communities were able to benefit from working with 'street-level' bureaucrats who had reinvented themselves around notions of socially just forms of capacity-building. The book provides a set of insights into what is possible from a critical engagement for school and community renewal perspective, by working with the resources that exist within disadvantaged contexts, even in damaging neoliberal policy times. Critically Engaged Learning breaks new and important ground across urgent and fractured boundaries.
  • ISBN13 9781433101564
  • Publish Date 26 August 2008 (first published 6 August 2008)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc