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Living on the Edge

Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling
Buch | Hardcover
239 Seiten
2013 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-1653-7 (ISBN)

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Living on the Edge - John Smyth, Terry Wrigley
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This book confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education – the nexus between poverty and underachievement. The authors draw upon positive examples of schools which are succeeding in engaging marginalized young people, providing worthwhile forms of learning, and improving young lives.
This book confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education – the nexus between poverty and underachievement. The topic has become a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. Living on the Edge maps and compares a number of competing explanations, critiques inadequate and deficit accounts, and offers a more convincing and useful theory. The authors challenge the view that problems can be fixed by discrete initiatives, which in many instances are deeply rooted in deficit views of youth, families and communities. The book systematically interrogates a range of explanations based outside as well as inside schools. It draws upon positive examples of schools which are succeeding in engaging marginalized young people, providing worthwhile forms of learning, and improving young lives. It is a `must read’ for anyone concerned about or implicated in the struggle for more socially just forms of education.

John Smyth is Research Professor of Education, University of Ballarat, Australia and Emeritus Professor, Flinders University. His most recent books include Hanging in with Kids in Tough Times (Peter Lang, 2010), Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice, and From Silent Witnesses to Active Agents: Student Voice in Re-engaging with Learning (Peter Lang, 2012). Terry Wrigley is Visiting Professor of School Improvement, Leeds Metropolitan University, England and Senior Honorary Research Fellow, University of Ballarat. He is editor of the international journal Improving Schools. His books include The Power to Learn (2000), Schools of Hope (2003), Another School is Possible (2006), Changing Schools: Alternative Ways to Make a World of Difference (eds. 2012), and Social Justice Re-examined (eds. 2012).

Contents: Foreword: Putting Those `Living on the Edge’ at the Centre of Educational Policy and Practice Bob Lingard – Understanding Class and Poverty – Blaming Individuals, Families, and Communities – The Role of the School.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.8.2013
Reihe/Serie Adolescent Cultures, School and Society ; 61
Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society ; 61
Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society ; 61
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 230 mm
Gewicht 480 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4331-1653-7 / 1433116537
ISBN-13 978-1-4331-1653-7 / 9781433116537
Zustand Neuware
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