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.
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