Policy Activism "with" and "for" Youth in Transition through Public Education

Autor/in	Tilleczek, Kate
Titel	Policy Activism "with" and "for" Youth in Transition through Public Education
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Administration and History, 44 (2012) 3, S.253-267 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0620
DOI	10.1080/00220620.2012.683393
Schlagwörter	Transitional Programs; Focus Groups; Ethnography; Foreign Countries; Public Education; Educational Policy; Articulation (Education); Alignment (Education); Activism; Qualitative Research; At Risk Students; Youth Opportunities; Developmental Studies Programs; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnografie; Ausland; Öffentliche Erziehung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Articulation; Artikulation (Ling); Artikulation; Aussprache; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Qualitative Forschung; Developmental studies; Developmental psychology; Study; Studies; Entwicklungspsychologie; Studium; Kanada
Abstract	This paper provides an analysis of international literature and focus group data arising from a three-year critical ethnographic study with 795 young people, educators and parents speaking about transitions through public education in Canada. It fills fissures in qualitative and process-based sociological work on youth transitions and redresses school transitions as critical, nested social ensembles. Moving from elementary to secondary school evokes emotional, social and academic paradoxes for young people. Policy and practice shifts are required and a policy activist stance begins to cut through embedded ideological and practical goings-on surrounding youth. The paper takes particular aim at that which continues to encourage individualised and pathologised treatment of this social transition, including the continued use and abuse of "at-risk" labels, and the need to support transitions teams "with" and "for" youth living through complex resiliency. (Contains 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10