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The School Story - Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,079
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The School Story - Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism (Hardcover): David Aitchison

The School Story - Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism (Hardcover)

David Aitchison

Series: Children's Literature Association Series

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The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The creations discussed are mostly stories for children and young adults. David Aitchison looks at serious novels for teens including Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak and Faiza Guene's Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow, the light-hearted, middle-grade fiction of Andrew Clements and Tommy Greenwald, and Malala Yousafzai's autobiography for young readers, I Am Malala. He also responds to stories that take young people as their primary subjects in such novels as Sapphire's Push and films including Battle Royale and Cooties. Though ranging widely in their accounts of young life, such stories betray a mounting sense of crisis in education around the world, especially in terms of equity (the extent to which students from diverse backgrounds have fair chances of receiving quality education) and empowerment (the extent to which diverse students are encouraged to gain strength, confidence, and selfhood as learners). Drawing particular attention to the influence of neoliberal initiatives on school experience, this book considers what it means when learning and success are measured more and more by entrepreneurship, competitive individualism, and marketplace gains. Attentive to the ways in which power structures, institutional routines, school spaces, and social relations operate in the contemporary school story, The School Story offers provocative insights into a genre that speaks profoundly to the increasingly precarious position of education in the twenty-first century.

General

Imprint: University Press Of Mississippi
Country of origin: United States
Series: Children's Literature Association Series
Release date: February 2022
Authors: David Aitchison
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-3762-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Social sciences > Education > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
LSN: 1-4968-3762-2
Barcode: 9781496837622

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