Peter Mcinerney

From Silent Witnesses to Active Agents

Student Voice in Re-Engaging with Learning

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Although they are typically viewed as silent witnesses in schools during the worldwide infatuation with school reform, this book, in fact, reveals young people to be active agents with something worthwhile to say about their schooling and what might be done to make learning more exciting and relevant to their lives and aspirations. The authors foreground the stories of some 100 young informants from low socioeconomic backgrounds who had been repelled by school, but found their way back in to learning through alternative education programs that offered them a sense of direction, hope, and purpose - although they also presented them with some t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Smyth, John

ISBN: 978-1-4331-1373-4
EAN: 9781433113734
Produktnummer: 15386674
Verlag: Peter Lang
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 146 S.
Masse: H22.5 cm x B15.0 cm x D0.8 cm 216 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 216

Über den Autor

John Smyth is Research Professor of Education in the School of Education & Arts at the University of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. He is the inter-disciplinary Research Theme Leader for Addressing Disadvantage and Inequality in Education and Health. His research interests are in policy sociology, policy ethnography, social justice, and sociology of education. Peter McInerney is Research Associate in the School of Education & Arts at the University of Ballarat. His research interests are forms of school reform that promote social justice.