This book brings a unique, innovative and refreshing perspective to one of the most protracted issues affecting young lives - disengagement from schooling. Rather than continuing to blame young people, as most educational policies do, this book examines disengagement from the vantage point of the lives, experiences, interests and aspirations of the communities from which young people come, and within which they are embedded. It uses a narrative and representational approach that gives detailed insights into the wider context of poverty, class, power, relationships and identity. A major and defining hallmark of the book is the emphasis it places upon a number of 'doings', - including community voice, identity formation, critical work education and education policy - all of which provide a very different set of scripts with which to reinvent the institution of high school.
- ISBN13 9781433106736
- Publish Date 29 January 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 257
- Language English
- URL https://peterlang.com/view/product/28214?format=PBK