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Youth Resistance Research and Theories of Change
Series: Critical Youth Studies
Youth resistance has become a pressing global phenomenon, to which many educators and researchers have looked for inspiration and/or with chagrin. Although the topic of much discussion and debate, it remains dramatically under-theorized, particularly in terms of theories of change. Resistance has...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Place in Research
Theory, Methodology, and Methods
Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods
Bringing environmental studies and indigenous studies into dialog, and drawing on geography and post-colonial theory, this volume examines the epistemological role of place in social science research. It explores how researchers around the globe are coming to terms - both theoretically and...
To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Urban Youth and School Pushout
Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED
Series: Critical Youth Studies
Recent efforts to reform urban high schools have been marked by the pursuit of ever-increasing accountability policies, most notably through the use of mayoral control and secondary school exit exams. This innovative and provocative volume excavates the unintended consequences of such policies on...
Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge