Equitable Education and Ghettoized Voices - A Deficit Ideology of Poverty in the Caribbean

This book centres the voices of a group of marginalized residents in Grenada's ghetto to examine questions of poverty and survival and how, within this context, residents are able to focus on improvement and equity for their children through education.

List of contents

1. Voices from the Ghetto - Purpose & Impact 2. Why Educate? 3. Hunger, Pain, and Humiliation 4. Adulthood Age 8 - Growing up Too Young 5. Between the Ghetto and a Dark Place -Entrepreneurs 6. Books, Shoes & Drugs - An Economy of Sharing 7. Beaten into Education- Deportation and the Socialisation of the Ghetto 8. Backyard Politics and Survival 9. Jail, Correction, and Redemption 10. From Ghetto to University 11. Grade School Gangster 12. Conclusion - Policy, Planning, & Progression

About the author

June A. Douglas is Associate Professor and Chair of Humanities and Social Science in the School of Arts and Science at St. George's University, Grenada.

Summary

This book centres the voices of a group of marginalized residents in Grenada’s ghetto to examine questions of poverty and survival and how, within this context, residents are able to focus on improvement and equity for their children through education.

Product details

• Authors: June A. Douglas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032769363
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3276936-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Routledge Research on Educational Equity in Developing Nations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Poverty & unemployment, Grenada, Social and cultural anthropology, Moral and social purpose of education, Poverty and precarity, Moral & social purpose of education