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    ‘Hanging in with Kids’ in Tough Times: Engagement in Contexts of Educational Disadvantage in the Relational School

    Barry Down,Peter McInerney,John Smyth

    Brings a perspective to one of the protracted issues affecting young lives - disengagement from schooling. This book examines disengagement from the vantage point of the lives, experiences, interests and…

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    The Socially Just School: Making Space for Youth to Speak Back

    John Smyth,Barry Down,Peter McInerney

    This book explores schools and how they can function as social institutions that advance the interests and life chances of all young people, especially those who are already the most…

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    The Socially Just School: Making Space for Youth to Speak Back

    John Smyth,Barry Down,Peter McInerney

    This book explores schools and how they can function as social institutions that advance the interests and life chances of all young people, especially those who are already the most…

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    Doing Critical Educational Research: A Conversation with the Research of John Smyth

    John Smyth,Barry Down,Robert Hattam,Peter McInerney

    Smyth’s research is pursued with vigour through the lives he researches, as he interrupts and punctures ‘bad’ theory, supplanting it with more democratic alternatives, which, by his own admission, makes…

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    Doing Critical Educational Research: A Conversation with the Research of John Smyth

    John Smyth,Barry Down,Robert Hattam,Peter McInerney

    Smyth’s research is pursued with vigour through the lives he researches, as he interrupts and punctures ‘bad’ theory, supplanting it with more democratic alternatives, which, by his own admission, makes…

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    Critically Engaged Learning: Connecting to Young Lives

    John Smyth,Lawrence Angus,Barry Down,Peter McInerney

    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…

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    Critically Engaged Learning: Connecting to Young Lives

    John Smyth,Lawrence Angus,Barry Down,Peter McInerney

    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…

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    Teachers in the Middle: Reclaiming the Wasteland of the Adolescent Years of Schooling

    John Smyth,Peter McInerney

    There is a profound and deepening crisis afflicting secondary schools in most parts of the world - but at its essence it is a crisis of a very different kind…

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    From Silent Witnesses to Active Agents: Student Voice in Re-engaging with Learning

    John Smyth,Peter McInerney

    From Silent Witnesses to Active Agents

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    From Silent Witnesses to Active Agents: Student Voice in Re-engaging with Learning

    John Smyth,Peter McInerney

    From Silent Witnesses to Active Agents

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    Becoming Educated: Young People’s Narratives of Disadvantage, Class, Place and Identity

    Peter McInerney,John Smyth

    Becoming Educated examines the education of young people, especially those from the most ‘disadvantaged’ contexts. This book shifts the focus to matters such as taking social class into consideration, puncturing…

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    Becoming Educated: Young People’s Narratives of Disadvantage, Class, Place and Identity

    Peter McInerney,John Smyth

    Becoming Educated examines the education of young people, especially those from the most ‘disadvantaged’ contexts. This book shifts the focus to matters such as taking social class into consideration, puncturing…

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    Critical Voices in Teacher Education: Teaching for Social Justice in Conservative Times

    These essays by teacher-educators explore what it means - practically and intellectually - to teach for social justice in conservative times. The book offers a vision of teacher education based…

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    Critical Voices in Teacher Education: Teaching for Social Justice in Conservative Times

    These essays by teacher-educators explore what it means - practically and intellectually - to teach for social justice in conservative times. The book offers a vision of teacher education based…

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    Rethinking School-to-Work Transitions in Australia: Young People Have Something to Say

    Barry Down,John Smyth,Janean Robinson

    This book draws on the stories of thirty-two young Australians to identify the barriers and obstacles they face in ‘getting a job’ in precarious times and from their vantage point.

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    Rethinking School-to-Work Transitions in Australia: Young People Have Something to Say

    Barry Down,John Smyth,Janean Robinson

    This book draws on the stories of thirty-two young Australians to identify the barriers and obstacles they face in ‘getting a job’ in precarious times and from their vantage point.

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    Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition

    John Smyth,Terry Wrigley,Peter McInerney

    Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education-the nexus between poverty and underachievement.

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