Living on the edge : rethinking poverty, class, and schooling / John Smyth and Terry Wrigley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smyth, John, 1944- author.

Wrigley, Terry, author.

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

Adolescent cultures, school & society ; 1091-1464 v. 61.

Adolescent cultures, school & society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational sociology.

Social classes.

Children with social disabilities--Education.

Children with social disabilities.

Poor children--Education.

Poor children.

Educational equalization.

Physical Description:

xii, 239 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2013]

Summary:

This book confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education-the nexus between poverty and underachievement. The topic has become a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. Living on the Edge maps and compares a number of competing explanations, critiques inadequate and deficit accounts, and offers a more convincing and useful theory. The authors challenge the view that problems can be fixed by discrete initiatives, which in many instances are deeply rooted in deficit views of youth, families, and communities. The book systematically interrogates a range of explanations based outside as well as inside schools. It draws upon positive examples of schools which are succeeding in engaging marginalized young people, providing worthwhile forms of learning, and improving young lives. It is a must-read for anyone concerned about or implicated in the struggle for more socially just forms of education. Book jacket.

Contents:

Putting those 'living on the edge' at the centre of educational policy and practice / Bob Lingard

pt. 1. Understanding class and poverty : Making sense of class ; Understanding poverty in the twenty-first century

pt. 2. Blaming individuals, families, and communities : Material poverty and 'problem' neighborhoods ; Blaming individuals and blaming their genes ; Speaking the wrong language ; Aspirations and "cultures of poverty"

pt. 3. The role of the school : Neoliberal school reform: blaming teachers, blaming schools ; Improving schools or transforming them: the politics of social justice ; Poor kids need rich teaching

Schools for social justice: theories of good practice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

1433116855

9781433116537

1433116537

9781433116858

OCLC:

853435845

Publisher Number:

99959330455