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Canaries Reflect on the Mine - Dropouts' Stories of Schooling (HC) (Hardcover)
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Canaries Reflect on the Mine - Dropouts' Stories of Schooling (HC) (Hardcover)
Series: Research for Social Justice: Personal, Passionate, Participa
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In Canaries Reflect on the Mine: Dropouts' Stories of Schooling,
Jeanne Cameron invites the reader to see schooling and early school
leaving through the eyes of high school dropouts themselves. The
transcendent desires revealed by this research - to be known and
valued, to learn with purpose and autonomy - are spoken with
poignant clarity by the young people who story these pages. This
study offers a compelling and timely critique of the dominant,
neoliberal discourse on schooling and early school leaving. It
challenges conventional wisdom about dropouts, and shows how the
experiences and needs of those who leave school early and those who
persist to graduation are more similar than different.
Collectively, these young people's stories evoke a
canary-in-the-mine metaphor, one where the canaries exit and the
miners remain. They implore us to see the dropout crisis as a
symptom of the alienating and dehumanizing school practices
advanced by No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. More
importantly, they offer a vision for schooling that lovingly
embraces and extends all students' experiences, enriches their
biographies, and celebrates and supports each of their talents and
purposes with equal passion. Pre-service and in-service teachers,
educational researchers and policy makers, administrators, and
advocates for equitable and democratic schooling have much to learn
from this book. Qualitative researchers will find a powerful model
for working collaboratively with youth to represent their
experiences and to craft solutions to the challenges they face.
Students of sociology will discover a compelling illustration of C.
Wright Mills' sociological imagination and his charge to "take it
big" by drawing connections between individual biographies and the
social and historical structures that frame lived experience. For
professional social scientists, it embodies Mills' challenge to
embrace the moral sensibilities required to understand and improve
the human condition.
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Imprint: |
Information Age Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Research for Social Justice: Personal, Passionate, Participa |
Release date: |
September 2012 |
Authors: |
Jeanne Cameron
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
160 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-61735-972-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
Schools >
Secondary schools >
General
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LSN: |
1-61735-972-6 |
Barcode: |
9781617359729 |
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