Critically engaged learning
Subtitle: listening to young lives
By: John Smyth ... [et al.].
Contributors: Smyth, John, 1944-
Series: Adolescent cultures, school, and society -- v. 42
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781433101557; 9781433101564
Subjects: Community education -- Australia; Critical pedagogy -- Australia
Description: "This book - the finale in a trilogy by the authors - traces the way in which a number of disadvantaged schools and communities were able to move beyond deficit, victim-blaming and pathologizing approaches and access resources of trust, relationships, connectedness and hope. It describes how these Australian schools and communities were able to benefit from working with 'street-level' bureaucrats who had reinvented themselves around notions of socially just forms of capacity-building. The book provides a set of insights into what is possible from a critical engagement for school and community renewal perspective, by working with the resources that exist within disadvantaged contexts, even in damaging neoliberal policy times."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.