Navigating Conflict : How Youth Handle Trouble in a High-Poverty School / Calvin Morrill, Michael Musheno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrill, Calvin, author.

Musheno, Michael, author.

Series:

Chicago series in law and society.

Chicago Series in Law and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peer mediation.

Poor teenagers--Conduct of life.

Poor teenagers.

School violence.

Social conflict.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages).

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Urban schools are often associated with violence, chaos, and youth aggression. But is this reputation really the whole picture? In Navigating Conflict, Calvin Morrill and Michael Musheno challenge the violence-centered conventional wisdom of urban youth studies, revealing instead the social ingenuity with which teens informally and peacefully navigate strife-ridden peer trouble. Taking as their focus a multi-ethnic, high-poverty school in the American southwest, the authors complicate our vision of urban youth, along the way revealing the resilience of students in the face of carceral disciplinary tactics. Grounded in sixteen years of ethnographic fieldwork, Navigating Conflict draws on archival and institutional evidence to locate urban schools in more than a century of local, state, and national change. Morrill and Musheno make the case for schools that work, where negative externalities are buffered and policies are adapted to ever-evolving student populations. They argue that these kinds of schools require meaningful, inclusive student organizations for sustaining social trust and collective peer dignity alongside responsive administrative leadership. Further, students must be given the freedom to associate and move among their peers, all while in the vicinity of watchful, but not intrusive adults. Morrill and Musheno make a compelling case for these foundational conditions, arguing that only through them can schools enable a rich climate for learning, achievement, and social advancement.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Cases

Preface

ONE. Rethinking Youth Conflict

TWO. Anchored Fluidity and Social Trust

THREE. Trouble

FOUR. "Workin' It Out"

FIVE. "Puttin' 'Em in Their Place"

SIX. "Dealing with the System"

SEVEN. Safe Schools

EIGHT. A Contested School That Works

APPENDIX A. Additional Notes on Data Collection, Analysis, Writing, and Generalizability

APPENDIX B. Trouble Issue and Response Aggregate Data

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226523873

022652387X

OCLC:

1030625194