Teachers in the Middle; Reclaiming the Wasteland of the Adolescent Years of Schooling by DeVitis, Joseph L.

Teachers in the Middle; Reclaiming the Wasteland of the Adolescent Years of Schooling (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820474595)

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Teachers in the Middle; Reclaiming the Wasteland of the Adolescent Years of Schooling by DeVitis, Joseph L.

Teachers in the Middle; Reclaiming the Wasteland of the Adolescent Years of Schooling

$48.90
Teachers in the Middle; Reclaiming the Wasteland of the Adolescent Years of Schooling by DeVitis, Joseph L.

Teachers in the Middle; Reclaiming the Wasteland of the Adolescent Years of Schooling

$48.90
Format: Paperback
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There is a profound and deepening crisis afflicting secondary schools in most parts of the world - but at its essence it is a crisis of a very different kind from the one portrayed by the media, the business community, politicians, and policy makers. Just what constitutes the crisis is highly problematic. What is being constructed for us through a concerted conservative assault and a new authoritarianism is one of failure by young people, their schools, and their teachers. But as with any moral panic, there are undisclosed interests and agenda operating, and they are not those of the people most directly affected, in this case young people.
This book tackles those myths head-on. Through a multi-layered portrait analysis of young lives, adult lives, and school lives this book shows how schools, teachers, and young people are re-inventing themselves against the damaging prevailing educational policy discourses. Teachers are in the middle in all kinds of ways - they are a group who are continually being disparaged, pilloried, and denigrated by politicians and the media; they are caught in the shifting tectonic plates of capitalism as schools are increasingly required to do economic work; and they are continually mediating the emotional, social, and intellectual intersections between schools, society, classrooms, and young lives. Teachers in the Middle provides a critique as well as hope and possibility as schools engage pedagogically with the maelstrom in which they find themselves.

Author: Joseph L. DeVitis,John Smyth
ISBN-10: 0820474592
ISBN-13: 9780820474595
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 12/07/2006
Pages: 247
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 226
By Joseph L. DeVitis
By Joseph L. DeVitis
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The Authors: John Smyth is Professorial Fellow at University of Ballarat, and Adjunct Professor at Charles Darwin University, Australia. He recently held the Roy F. & Joann Cole Mitte Endowed Chair in School Improvement at Texas State University-San Marcos, where he is currently an adjunct graduate professor. He is the author/editor of fifteen books and many articles, and his most recent book (with Hattam and others) is 'Dropping Out', Drifting Off, Being Excluded: Becoming Somebody Without School (Peter Lang, 2004).
Peter McInerney is Research Associate at University of Ballarat, and a former high school teacher. His recent book is Making Hope Practical; School Reform for Social Justice (2004).

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