Living on the edge. Rethinking poverty, class and schooling.

Autor/inn/en	Smyth, John; Wrigley, Terry
Titel	Living on the edge. Rethinking poverty, class and schooling.
Quelle	New York, NY u.a.: Lang (2013), XII, 239 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Adolescent cultures, school & society. 61
Beigaben	Literatur- und URL-Angaben S. [209]-228
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISSN	1091-1464
ISBN	1-4331-1685-5; 978-1-4331-1685-8
Schlagwörter	Bildungschance; Chancengleichheit; Soziale Ungleichheit; Soziales Milieu; Bildungspolitik; Schulreform; Benachteiligtenförderung; Schulentwicklung; Vererbung; Armut; Klassengesellschaft; Nachbarschaft; Neoliberalismus; Soziale Schicht; Sozialpolitik; Benachteiligung; Unterschicht; Benachteiligtes Kind
Abstract	This book confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education - the nexus between poverty and underachievement. The topic has become a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. The book maps and compares a number of competing explanations, critiques inadequate and deficit accounts, and offers a more convincing and useful theory. The authors challenge the view that problems can be fixed by discrete initiatives, which in many instances are deeply rooted in deficit views of youth, families and communities. The book systematically interrogates a range of explanations based outside as well as inside schools. It draws upon positive examples of schools which are succeeding in engaging marginalized young people, providing worthwhile forms of learning, and improving young lives. It is a 'must read' for anyone concerned about or implicated in the struggle for more socially just forms of education. (Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2014/1