Living on the Edge - Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education-the nexus between poverty and underachievement. This topic stubbornly remains 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. This second edition contains two expansive case studies that exemplify, explain and illustrate the themes coursing through the book. Living on the Edge's second edition remains a "must read" for anyone concerned about or implicated in the struggle for more socially just forms of education.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Adolescent Cultures, School & Society, 70
Release date:	February 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	John Smyth • Terry Wrigley • Peter McInerney
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	310
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-3510-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Students / student organizations
LSN:	1-4331-3510-8
Barcode:	9781433135101

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