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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. In These Kids, Kysa Nygreen turns a critical eye on this paradox. Offering the voices and viewpoints of students at a "last chance" high school in California, she tells the story of students who have, in fact, been left behind. Detailing a youth-led participatory action research project that she coordinated, Nygreen uncovers deep barriers to educational success that are embedded within educ. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Paradox of Getting Ahead; Part I . Social and Historical Contexts; Chapter 1. Situating Jackson High: Last Chance High Schools and the Discourse of These Kids; Chapter 2. Being Professional: Figured Worlds and the Construction of Self; Part II. Theorizing Identity and Agency; Chapter 3. People Have the Power: Critical Consciousness and Political Identity in PARTY; Chapter 4. From Theory to Practice: Teacher Identity, Agency, and Reproduction at Jackson High; Part III. Dilemmas of Social Justice at the Last Chance High School. |
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Chapter 5. Paradigms of Educational Justice: Contested Curricular Goals in the Social Justice ClassChapter 6. Social Justice for "These Kids"; Appendix: Last Chance Literature Review Coding Methods; Notes; References; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Evening and continuation school students -- California -- Psychology.
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Evening and continuation school students. |
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California. |
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Psychology. |
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High school dropouts -- California -- Psychology.
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High school dropouts. |
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Evening and continuation schools -- California.
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Evening and continuation schools. |
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Failure (Psychology) in adolescence.
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Failure (Psychology) in adolescence. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nygreen, Kysa. These kids. University of Chicago Press 2013 9780226031422 |
| ISBN |
9780226031736 (electronic book) |
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022603173X (electronic book) |
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1299561012 (electronic book) |
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9781299561014 (electronic book) |
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9780226031422 |
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