Student engagement in urban schools : beyond neoliberal discourses

The focus of this book extends the discourse on student engagement beyond prescriptive definitions and includes substantive ethical and political issues relating to this concept. As such, this collection includes voices of educational theorists, practitioners, and students. It provides a counter dis...

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Other Authors McMahon, Brenda J. (Editor), Portelli, John P. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012.
SeriesIssues in the research, theory, policy, and practice of urban education.
Subjects
Education, Urban.
Educational equalization.
Neoliberalism.
Education > History.
Educational administration and organization.
History of education.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806615636
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-733-6
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 201 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Series editors' preface / Denise E. Armstrong and Brenda J. McMahon
  • Chapter 2. The challenges of neoliberalism in education: Implications for student engagement / Brenda J. McMahon and John P. Portelli
  • Chapter 3. From student voice to democratic community: New beginnings, radical continuities / Michael Fielding
  • Chapter 4. Education in and for democracy: Conceptions of schooling and student voice / Brenda J. McMahon
  • Chapter 5. Insiders versus outsiders: Examining variability in student voice initiatives and their consequences for school change / Dana Mitra and Ben Kirshner
  • Chapter 6. When students speak back: Student engagement towards a socially just society / John Smyth
  • Chapter 7. Aspiration and education: Toward new terms of engagement for marginalized students / Sam Sellar and Trevor Gale
  • Chapter 8. Transformative student engagement--an empowering pedagogy: An australian experience in the classroom / David Zyngier
  • Chapter 9. Thinking the unthinkable: Teachers who engage students in poverty: In this class you can imagine... / Geoff Munns
  • Chapter 10. Reconsidering the rhetoric of engagement: I and thou in the classroom / Deborah L. Seltzer-Kelly
  • Chapter 11. Teaching controversial issues: An educational imperative / Amanda Cooper and John P. Portelli
  • About the contributors.

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