Education and working-class youth : Reshaping the politics of inclusion
- Authors: Simmons, Robin , Smyth, John
- Date: 2018
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- Description: This book provides an inclusive and incisive analysis of the experiences of working-class young people in education. While there is an established literature on education and the working class stretching back decades, comparatively there has been something of a neglect of class-based inequality – with questions of gender, ‘race’ and other forms of identity attracting significant attention. However, events including Britain's 2016 decision to leave the European Union, have thrown social class into sharp focus, both in the UK and elsewhere. Featuring leading thinkers in the sociology of education, this book examines the different ways in which young people relate to various parts of the education system, including different forms of schooling, post-compulsory and university education. They maintain that the issue of social class goes beyond the walls of specific institutions to affect young people in a variety of ways: not only in the UK, but across the globe. This book will be of great value and interest to students and scholars of the sociology of education, working-class youth, and equality of opportunity.
Becoming educated: Young people's narratives of disadvantage, class, place, and identity
- Authors: Smyth, John , McInerney, Peter
- Date: 2014
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Living on the edge : Rethinking poverty, class and schooling
- Authors: Smyth, John , Wrigley, Terry
- Date: 2013
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From silent witnesses to active agents: Student voice in re-engaging with learning
- Authors: Smyth, John , McInerney, Peter
- Date: 2012
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- Relation: Adolescent cultures, school & society No. 55
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Critical pedagogy for social justice
- Authors: Smyth, John
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Critical pedagogy today
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- Description: An incisive analysis of how Critical Pedagogy can be a force for positive change in schools around the world, helping the most disadvantaged students.
'Hanging in with kids' in tough times: Engagement in contexts of educational disadvantage in the relational school
- Authors: Smyth, John , Down, Barry , McInerney, Peter
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society Vol. Volume 49
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- Description: Synopsis - 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.
Activist and socially critical school and community renewal
- Authors: Smyth, John , Angus, Lawrence , Down, Barry , McInerney, Peter
- Date: 2009
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- Relation: Transgressions - Cultural studies and education
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Critically engaged learning : Connecting to young lives
- Authors: Smyth, John , Angus, Lawrence , Down, Barry , McInerney, Peter
- Date: 2008
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- Relation: Adolescent cultures, school & society No. 42
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- Description: This book - the finale in a trilogy by the authors - traces the way in which a number of disadvantaged schools and communities were able to move beyond deficit, victim-blaming and pathologizing approaches and access resources of trust, relationships, connectedness and hope. It describes how these Australian schools and communities were able to benefit from working with 'street-level' bureaucrats who had reinvented themselves around notions of socially just forms of capacity-building. The book provides a set of insights into what is possible from a critical engagement for school and community renewal perspective, by working with the resources that exist within disadvantaged contexts, even in damaging neoliberal policy times.
- Description: 2003006329
Teachers in the middle : Reclaiming the wasteland of the adolescent years of schooling
- Authors: Smyth, John , McInerney, Peter
- Date: 2007
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- Description: Taking account of the issues of youth alienation and disengagement described in this study, the main intent of the present research was to explore the ways in which teachers and schools are reinventing themselves for young adolescents.
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- Description: 2003005594
"Dropping out," drifting off, being excluded : becoming somebody without school
- Authors: Smyth, John , Hattam, Robert
- Date: 2004
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Critical politics of teachers' work: An Australian perspective
- Authors: Smyth, John
- Date: 2001
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