Policy activism: An animating idea with/for young people

Title: Policy activism: An animating idea with/for young people
Creator: Smyth, John
Date: 2012
Type: Text; Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/63380
Identifier: vital:4754
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2012.683396
Identifier: ISSN:0022-0620
Abstract: By whatever indicators we choose to use, the bold neoliberal experiment embarked upon by developed Western countries has been an unqualified disaster for young people. Far from them being ‘included’ as the shrill policy rhetoric argues, increasing numbers of young people, especially those who are pushed into the increasing social gradient that labels them as being ‘disadvantaged’, are finding schools to be inhospitable places that do not connect with their communities, lives or aspirations for rewarding futures. This particular social group are rejecting the institution of schooling in unprecedented numbers, and are switching off emotionally, relationally and intellectually.
Relation: Journal of Educational Administration and History Vol. 44, no. 3 (2012), p. 179-186
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: Policy activism; Young people; Disadvantaged; Education
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