These kids : identity, agency, and social justice at a last chance high school / Kysa Nygreen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nygreen, Kysa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evening and continuation school students--California--Psychology.

Evening and continuation school students.

Evening and continuation schools--California.

Evening and continuation schools.

Failure (Psychology) in adolescence.

High school dropouts--California--Psychology.

High school dropouts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Few would deny that getting ahead is a legitimate goal of learning, but the phrase implies a cruel hierarchy: a student does not simply get ahead, but gets ahead of others. In These Kids, Kysa Nygreen turns a critical eye on this paradox. Offering the voices and viewpoints of students at a "last chance" high school in California, she tells the story of students who have, in fact, been left behind. Detailing a youth-led participatory action research project that she coordinated, Nygreen uncovers deep barriers to educational success that are embedded within educational discourse itself. Struggling students internalize descriptions of themselves as "at risk," "low achieving," or "troubled"-and by adopting the very language of educators, they also adopt its constraints and presumption of failure. Showing how current educational discourse does not, ultimately, provide an adequate vision of change for students at the bottom of the educational hierarchy, she levies a powerful argument that social justice in education is impossible today precisely because of how we talk about it.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Paradox of Getting Ahead

Part I. Social and Historical Contexts

Part II. Theorizing Identity and Agency

Part III. Dilemmas of Social Justice at the Last Chance High School

Appendix: Last Chance Literature Review Coding Methods

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226031736

022603173X

9780226031422

022603142X

OCLC:

842881740