Canaries reflect on the mine : dropouts' stories of schooling

• Main Author: Cameron, Jeanne (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2012]
• Series: Research for social justice.
• Subjects: High school dropouts > United States > Case studies.; elektronické knihy; Case studies.; Education > Administration > Elementary & Secondary.; Educational administration and organization.; Primary and middle schools.; Secondary schools.; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806614417
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-62396-000-1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxx, 128 pages)

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 an...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Series foreword
• Foreword by william schubert
• Prologue
• Chapter 1. Narrative research and sociological poetry
• Chapter 2. Hannah: Pushing back, moving on
• Chapter 3. Steve: A gambler's story
• Chapter 4. Adel: Refusing to be left behind
• Chapter 5. Cole: Making money, making sense
• Chapter 6. Isabel: I pretty much felt like I wasn't even there
• Chapter 7. Iris: A voice not heard
• Chapter 8. Ivan: Loss of faith
• Chapter 9. Canaries in the mine
• Chapter 10. Spin and whisper
• References. Notes.