Schooling in the Age of Austerity [electronic resource] : Urban Education and the Struggle for Democratic Life /
Means, A.author.
Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to promote more secure and equitable democratic futures for young people.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments                      ; Introduction: Schooling in a Time of Crisis and Austerity                                                                ; Part I Neoliberal Schooling and the Politics of Security                                                               ; 1 Securing Precarious Urban Futures                                          ; 2 Chicago and the Management of Social Research
Part II Narratives of Enclosure and Possibility                                                      3 Learning by Dispossession: Objective Violence and Educational Failure                                                                              ; 4 Criminality or Sociality: A Zero Sum Game?                                                   ; 5 Searching for Human Security and Citizenship                                                     ; Conclusion: Public Schooling for a Common Security                                                         ; Notes
Bibliography                   Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to promote more secure and equitable democratic futures for young people.
Education—History.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Sociology, Urban.
Educational sociology.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Sociology.
History of Education.
Philosophy of Education.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology, general.