Critically engaged learning : listening to young lives

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Critically engaged learning : listening to young lives

John Smyth ... [et al.]

(Adolescent cultures, school & society, v. 42)

P. Lang, c2008

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Other authors: Lawrence Angus, Barry Down, Peter McInerney

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-183) and indexes

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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.

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