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'Hanging in with Kids' in Tough Times: Engagement in Contexts of Educational Disadvantage in the Relational School
Contributor(s): DeVitis, Joseph L. (Editor), Irwin-DeVitis, Linda (Editor), Smyth, John (Author)

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 ISBN: 1433106736     ISBN-13: 9781433106736
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
OUR PRICE: $46.46  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: January 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Aims & Objectives
- Education | Secondary
- Social Science | Sociology - General
Dewey: 370.115
LCCN: 2009045204
Series: Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" L (0.85 lbs) 257 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 220
 
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Publisher Description:
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.
 
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