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Invisible Children in the Society and Its Schools (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
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Invisible Children in the Society and Its Schools (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
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The authors in this book use the metaphors of invisibility and
visibility to explore the social and school lives of many children
and young people in North America whose complexity, strengths, and
vulnerabilities are largely unseen in the society and its schools.
These "invisible children" are socially devalued in the sense that
alleviating the difficult conditions of their lives is not a
priority-children who are subjected to derogatory stereotypes, who
are educationally neglected in schools that respond inadequately if
at all to their needs, and who receive relatively little attention
from scholars in the field of education or writers in the popular
press. The chapter authors, some of the most passionate and
insightful scholars in the field of education today, detail
oversights and assaults, visible and invisible, but also affirm the
capacity of many of these young people to survive, flourish, and
often educate others, despite the painful and even desperate
circumstances of their lives. By sharing their voices, providing
basic information about them, and offering thoughtful analysis of
their social situation, this volume combines education and advocacy
in an accessible volume responsive to some of the most pressing
issues of our time. Although their research methodologies differ,
all of the contributors aim to get the facts straight and to set
them in a meaningful context. New in the Third Edition: Chapters
retained from the previous edition have been thoroughly revised and
updated, and five totally new chapters have been added on the
topics of: *young people pushed into the "school-to-prison"
pipeline; *the "environmental landscape" of two out-of-school
Mexican migrant teens in the rural Midwest; *the perceptions and
practices, in and outside schools, that construct African American
boys as school failures; *negative portrayals of blackness in the
context of understanding the "collateral damage of continued white
privilege"; and *working-class pregnant and parenting teens'
efforts to create positive identities for themselves. Of interest
to a broad range of researchers, students, and practitioners across
the field of education, this compelling book is accessible to all
readers. It is particularly appropriate as a text for courses that
address the social context of education, cultural and political
change, and public policy, including social foundations of
education, sociology of education, multicultural education,
curriculum studies, and educational policy.
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