TY - BOOK AU - Carolyn R. Hodges AU - Olga Welch PY - 2021 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag TI - Making Schools Work T2 - Negotiating Educational Meaning and Transforming the Margins UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1096458 N2 - When talking about marginality and «otherness», one must always ask, marginal to what? Other to whom? Complex issues of identity construction have been the focus of research on students who, whether based on race, gender, class, or ability, define themselves or are defined as being on the margins of school life. Making Schools Work examines this question in its presentation of the results of a longitudinal study of academic achievement and pre-college enrichment. Discussions focus on how students construct their identities with regard to race because of the history of problems associated with race relations in educational settings. Using case studies and observational data, the book presents findings on a group of adolescents defined as «at risk» – inside, but on the margins of educational institutions. KW - otherness, identity, gender, ability LA - English ER -