Critical Youth Studies

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1. Urban Youth and School Pushout

   Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED

   By Eve Tuck

   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 high-stakes standardized testing, mayoral control, and secondary school exit exams. Urban Youth and School Pushout excavates the unintended...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
2. Lost Youth in the Global City

   Class, Culture, and the Urban Imaginary

   By Jo-Anne Dillabough, Jacqueline Kennelly

   Series: Critical Youth Studies

   What does it mean to be young, to be economically disadvantaged, and to be subject to constant surveillance both from the formal agencies of the state and from the informal challenge of competing youth groups? What is life like for young people living on the fringe of global cities in late...

   Published February 1st 2010 by Routledge
3. Black Youth Matters

   Transitions from School to Success

   By Cecile Wright, P.J. Standen, Tina Patel

   Series: Critical Youth Studies

   How do young black students respond, resist, and work to transform their school experience? How do young people adapt, survive, and then succeed in spite of their negative school experience? For an increasing number of marginalized black youth, the paths to social success can actually lie outside...

   Published December 1st 2009 by Routledge
4. The Means to Grow Up

   Reinventing Apprenticeship as a Developmental Support in Adolescence

   By Robert Halpern

   Series: Critical Youth Studies

   In The Means to Grow Up, Robert Halpern describes the pedagogical importance of "apprenticeship"—a growing movement based in schools, youth-serving organizations, and arts, civic, and other cultural institutions. This movement aims to re-engage youth through in-depth learning and unique experiences...

   Published November 25th 2008 by Routledge
5. Theory and Educational Research

   Toward Critical Social Explanation

   By Jean Anyon

   Series: Critical Youth Studies

   Most empirical researchers avoid the use of theory in their studies, providing data but little or no social explanation. Theoreticians, on the other hand, rarely test their ideas with empirical projects. As this groundbreaking volume makes clear, however, neither data nor theory alone is adequate...

   Published July 6th 2008 by Routledge
6. Revolutionizing Education

   Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion

   Edited by Julio Cammarota, Michelle Fine

   Series: Critical Youth Studies

   Many scholars have turned to the groundbreaking critical research methodology, Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR), as a way to address both the political challenges and inherent power imbalances of conducting research with young people. Revolutionizing Education makes an extraordinarily...

   Published January 23rd 2008 by Routledge
7. Next Wave Cultures

   Feminism, Subcultures, Activism

   Edited by Anita Harris

   Series: Critical Youth Studies

   Whereas once young women’s feminist activism could be easily identified, today this resistance seems obscure, transitory, and disorganized. In Next Wave Cultures, established and emerging scholars provide an interdisciplinary examination of young women’s multilayered lives. This collection...

   Published November 25th 2007 by Routledge
8. Youth Culture and Sport

   Identity, Power, and Politics

   Edited by Michael D. Giardina, Michele K. Donnelly

   Series: Critical Youth Studies

   Youth Culture and Sport critically interrogates and challenges contemporary articulations of race, class, gender, and sexual relations circulating throughout popular iterations of youth sporting culture in late-capitalism. Written against the backdrop of important changes in social, cultural,...

   Published October 7th 2007 by Routledge
9. Youth Moves

   Identities and Education in Global Perspective

   Edited by Nadine Dolby, Fazal Rizvi

   Series: Critical Youth Studies

   This fascinating collection of original essays seeks to address the possibilities and dangers of young people's transnational, commodified identities; how society and educational institutions might respond to these new identities; and the consequences for democratic practices and the public sphere....

   Published August 1st 2007 by Routledge
10. Youth Learning On Their Own Terms

    Creative Practices and Classroom Teaching

    By Leif Gustavson

    Series: Critical Youth Studies

    Youth Learning On Their Own Terms convincingly shows how developing a respect and understanding of the youth-initiated creative practices that occur outside schools can offer educators the opportunity to directly influence their teaching in schools by making classroom spaces personally meaningful...

    Published March 11th 2007 by Routledge