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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13
9780226031569
eBay Product ID (ePID)
141540092
Product Key Features
Author
Kysa Nygreen
Publication Name
These Kids: Identity, Agency, and Social Justice at a Last Chance High School
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Education, Strategy
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
228mm
Item Width
163mm
Item Weight
354g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Kysa Nygreen
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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