Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling (Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society)

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Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling (Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society)

Written by John Smyth
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Living on the Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education―the nexus between poverty and underachievement. This topic stubbornly remains a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. Living on the Edge 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. This second edition contains two expansive case studies that exemplify, explain and illustrate the themes coursing through the book. Living on the Edge's second edition remains a "must read" for anyone concerned about or implicated in the struggle for more socially just forms of education.

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Published August 15, 2013
ISBN 18316786
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John Smyth is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, John Smyth can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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