The Forgotten Room - Inside a Public Alternative School for At-risk Youth

Informationen zum Autor By Mary Hollowell - Foreword by Ashley Bryan Klappentext This gritty and compelling ethnography examines the darker side of American education through chronicling the course of Peachtree Alternative School's tenth and final year.. It exposes punitive school policy, demonstrates the prison-industrial complex, and reveals school board corruption. In addition, it pinpoints quality teaching of chronically disruptive youth. As ethnographic nonfiction, The Forgotten Room breaks down the walls between social science and literature. Zusammenfassung This gritty and compelling ethnography examines the darker side of American education through chronicling the course of Peachtree Alternative School's tenth and final year.. It exposes punitive school policy! demonstrates the prison-industrial complex! and reveals school board corruption. In addition! it pinpoints quality teaching of chronically disruptive youth. As ethnographic nonfiction! The Forgotten Room breaks down the walls between social science and literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. August Chapter 2. September Chapter 3. October Chapter 4. November Chapter 5. December Chapter 6. January Chapter 7. February Chapter 8. March Chapter 9. April Chapter 10. May Chapter 11 Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: Mary Hollowell, Mary/ Bryan Hollowell, Hollowell Mary
• Assisted by: Ashley Bryan (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.09.2011
• EAN: 9780739134962
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-3496-2
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 152 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Special education; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Special Education / Learning Disabilities, Educational strategies & policy, Teaching of students with learning difficulties, Schools and pre-schools, Educational strategies and policy