TY  - BOOK
AU  - John Smyth
AU  - Barry Down
AU  - Peter McInerney
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - ‘Hanging in with Kids’ in Tough Times
T2  - Engagement in Contexts of Educational Disadvantage in the Relational School
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1135868
N2  - This book brings a unique, innovative and refreshing perspective to one of the most protracted issues affecting young lives – disengagement from schooling. Rather than continuing to blame young people, as most educational policies do, this book examines disengagement from the vantage point of the lives, experiences, interests and aspirations of the communities from which young people come, and within which they are embedded. It uses a narrative and representational approach that gives detailed insights into the wider context of poverty, class, power, relationships and identity. A major and defining hallmark of the book is the emphasis it places upon a number of ‘doings’, – including community voice, identity formation, critical work education and education policy – all of which provide a very different set of scripts with which to reinvent the institution of high school.
KW  - disengagement, social justice, urban schooling, disadvantage
LA  - English
ER  -