Debating dropouts : critical policy and research perspectives on school leaving / Deirdre Kelly, Jane Gaskell, editors
- Bib ID:
- 2725705
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- New York : Teachers College Press, c1996
- xviii, 222 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0807735418 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- 0807735426 (alkaline paper) (cloth)
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / Michelle Fine
- Ch. 1. Unfinished Business? The Dropout Goes to Work in Education Policy Reports / Kari Dehli
- Ch. 2. Lifelong Learning: Between Utopia and Economic Imperatives / Kjell Rubenson
- Ch. 3. The Dependency of Independence: At Risk Youth, Economic Self-Sufficiency, and Curricular Change / Nancy Lesko
- Ch. 4. Coming to Terms with Marginal Work: Dropouts in a Polarized Labor Market / Harvey Krahn and Julian Tanner
- Ch. 5. Dropping Out in Canada: The Construction of a Crisis? / Paul Anisef and Lesley Andres
- Ch. 6. "Choosing" the Alternative: Conflicting Missions and Constrained Choice in a Dropout Prevention Program / Deirdre M. Kelly
- Ch. 7. What If You Organized a Reform and Nothing Changed? The Fate of Culturally Compatible Curricula in an American Indian Public School District / Margaret D. LeCompte
- Ch. 8. Debating "Dropouts": The Moral Panic and the Spectacle Over "Youth At Risk" / Leslie G. Roman.
- Ch. 9. Black Youth and Fading Out of School / George J. Sefa Dei
- Ch. 10. Government Funded Job-Entry Programs for Women: Whose Needs Are Being Addressed? / Shauna Butterwick.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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