| Critically Engaged Learning: Connecting to Young Lives Contributor(s): DeVitis, Joseph L. (Editor), Irwin-DeVitis, Linda (Editor), Smyth, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1433101564 ISBN-13: 9781433101564 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $134.71 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Aims & Objectives - Education | Secondary - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 370.115 |
| LCCN: 2008017150 |
| Series: Adolescent Cultures, School and Society |
| Physical Information: 205 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. Critically Engaged Learning breaks new and important ground across urgent and fractured boundaries. |