Dropping Out, Drifting Off, Being Excluded

Becoming Somebody Without School

By: John Smyth, Robert Hattam

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Paperback | 4 February 2004

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This book deals with one of the most urgent, damaging, and complex issues affecting young lives and contemporary society in general - the escalating high school dropout rate. Though against the wishes of teachers and school administrators, young people's decision to leave school is usually made under circumstances that provide little time or space for discussion. This book provides a disturbing account of how students' voices are over-ridden - lost in the imposition of curriculum and the rush to impose testing, accountability, and management regimes on schools. 'Dropping Out', Drifting Off, Being Excluded reveals the complex stories that surround identity formation in young lives and the «interactive trouble» as young people struggle to be heard within inhospitable schools and an equally unhelpful education system.

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Non-Fiction Self-Help, Personal Development & Practical Advice Advice on Careers & Achieving Success Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Encyclopaedias & Reference Works Reference Works Education Schools & Pre-Schools Secondary Schools Teaching of Specific Groups with Special Educational Needs Organisation & Management of Education

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction
Capturing the Voices of Early School Leavers	p. 3
Getting Oriented	p. 3
Interrupting Habitual Readings	p. 12
Naming the Problem--Perspective Is Everything	p. 17
Developing a Research Orientation	p. 19
Dialectical Theory-Building	p. 27
Representing Lives in Portraits	p. 29
Organization of the Book	p. 32
Constellation of Orienting Concepts
Contextualizing Early School Leaving: Globalization, the State and Schools	p. 37
Navigating a Transition	p. 37
Mapping Context--Globalization	p. 38
The Process of Economic Globalization	p. 40
Socio-cultural and Technological Globalization	p. 47
"Going for a Job"	p. 48
"Getting Training"	p. 54
"Going to University"	p. 54
The Nature of the Contemporary Secondary School	p. 56
What Does All of This Mean?	p. 66
Becoming Somebody with or without School	p. 67
Youth Identity Formation	p. 68
Interferences	p. 73
The Impact of Media Culture	p. 74
Children Are Now Seen and Want to Be Heard	p. 76
Thinking about Suicide	p. 80
The Use and Abuse of Illegal Substances	p. 81
Friendships	p. 82
Becoming Economically Independent: Learning about Work without School	p. 92
Individual, Institutional and Cultural Identities
Doing Identity Work: Class, Race and Gender	p. 97
Class/Gender/Race in Constellation	p. 98
Class as a Site of Identity Formation	p. 100
Gendered School Leaving	p. 113
Gender Difference and Schooling	p. 114
The Wage-Labor Identity of Young Women	p. 118
Post-school Options: Aspirations for Their Future	p. 120
Harassment: Disciplining Gender Identities	p. 123
Dealing with Racism	p. 128
Interactive Trouble in Post-compulsory Schooling	p. 131
The Making of Young Lives with/against the School Credential	p. 135
How Did the Credential Construct Young People?	p. 138
How Did Young People Contest and Negotiate the Credential?	p. 143
How Did the Credential Constitute an Impediment to Completion?	p. 148
Whose Knowledge and Skills Were Celebrated, and Whose Excluded?	p. 152
School Culture and Student Voices in Early School Leaving	p. 155
School Culture as an Orienting Theory	p. 156
Cultural Geography of the School around Early School Leaving	p. 161
Voices of Students on School Culture	p. 167
Cultural Geography and the Crossing of School Boundaries	p. 184
School Culture and Youth Identity Formation	p. 186
Conclusion
Grappling with the Mis-matches: Themes, Questions, Action	p. 191
Notes	p. 197
References	p. 199
Index	p. 213
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