These Kids - Identity, Agency, and Social Justice At a Last Chance High School

Informationen zum Autor Kysa Nygreen is assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Klappentext 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. Offering the voices and viewpoints of students at a "last chance" high school in California! the author tells the story of students who have! in fact! been left behind. Zusammenfassung 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. Offering the voices and viewpoints of students at a "last chance" high school in California! the author tells the story of students who have! in fact! been left behind.

Product details

• Authors: Kysa Nygreen, Nygreen Kysa
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2013
• EAN: 9780226031569
• ISBN: 978-0-226-03156-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; California, EDUCATION / Inclusive Education, Secondary Schools, Educational strategies and policy: inclusion, Inclusive education / mainstreaming, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary