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Invisible Children in the Society and Its Schools (Paperback, 3rd edition)
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Invisible Children in the Society and Its Schools (Paperback, 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 Mexicanmigrant
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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