Canaries Reflect on the Mine: Dropouts' Stories of Schooling

Name: Canaries Reflect on the Mine: Dropouts' Stories of Schooling
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ISBN: 9781617359996

ISBN-10: 1617359998

ISBN-13: 9781617359996

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jeanne Cameron

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In Canaries Reflect on the Mine: Dropouts' Stories of Schooling, Jeanne Cameron invites the reader to see schooling and early school leaving through the eyes of high school dropouts themselves. The transcendent desires revealed by this research - to be known and valued, to learn with purpose and autonomy - are spoken with poignant clarity by the young people who story these pages. This study offers a compelling and timely critique of the dominant, neoliberal discourse on schooling and early school leaving. It challenges conventional wisdom about dropouts, and shows how the experiences and needs of those who leave school early and those who persist to graduation are more similar than…

Book details

List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Information Age Pub Inc
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 132
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English