Improving schools in poor areas: It's not about the organisation, structures and privatisation, stupid!
- Authors: Smyth, John
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Improving Schools Vol. 17, no. 3 (2014), p. 231-240
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- Description: In this article, the author presents a review of his extended research engagement with disadvantaged young people and their education. He challenges the dominant neoliberal model of school reform based on business values and the ‘managerial school’ as alien to educational values. He introduces various stages of research he and his colleagues have undertaken over the past two decades, showing the importance of an authentic engagement with young people’s lives, the characteristics of schools which reach out to disadvantaged students and the importance of transformative pedagogy and community involvement.
Teachers in the middle : Reclaiming the wasteland of the adolescent years of schooling
- Authors: Smyth, John , McInerney, Peter
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Book
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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.
- Description: A1
- Description: 2003005594
Toward the pedagogically engaged school : Listening to student voice as a positive response to disengagement and 'dropping out'?
- Authors: Smyth, John
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: The International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School Chapter 30 p. 635-658
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- Description: Chapter looks at young people's reasons for leaving school early, and how teachers of young adolescents were attempting to re-invent themselves in ways that engaged students. It presents a framework of school reform that has emerged out of the research.
- Description: B1
- Description: 2003005597
Researching teachers working with young adolescents : Implications for ethnographic research
- Authors: Smyth, John
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Ethnography and Education Vol. 1, no.1 (2006), p. 31-51
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- Reviewed:
- Description: This paper aims to explore theoretically and practically how to better understand how it is that teachers work successfully in schools and classrooms with young adolescents. I want to explore how to undertake research that: (1) listens to the voices of young people in schools and the teachers who work with them, and (2) better understand how it is that some teachers of young adolescents are sucessfully reinventing themselves, their pedagogies and school cultures.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003008113
- Description: 2003001896