Description: Reconstructing 'Dropout' : A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students' Disengagement from School, Paperback by Dei, George Jerry Sefa (EDT); Mazzuca, Josephine; McIsaac, Elizabeth; Zine, Jasmin, ISBN 080208060X, ISBN-13 9780802080608, Brand New, Free shipping in the US As many as one million untrained youths will enter the Canadian labour market by the year 2000. And yet, 60 per cent of jobs being created in Canada require at least a high school education. The drop-out rate is one of the most crucial issues that Canadian educators face. Traditionally, we have pinned dropping out on individual failure or specific situations such as pregnancy, substance abuse, and family troubles. The authors of this book suggest that the problem is more complex. Race, class, gender, and other forms of social difference can affect how education is delivered. For Black students, whose drop-out rate is disproportionately high, race is a key element in disengagement. The authors turn to the experiences of Black and non-Black students, teachers, parents, and community workers to try and reconstruct the social, structural, and institutional practices that lead Black youth to lose interest in and leave school. Based on a three-year study in the greater Toronto area, Reconstructing 'Dropout' establishes a new frame of reference for understanding the dilemma. It is a call for social action and transformation that should not be ignored by researchers, teachers, administrators, and the Black community at large.
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Book Title: Reconstructing 'Dropout' : A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Reconstructing 'Dropout' : A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students' Disengagement from School
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Social Work, Educational Policy & Reform / General, Discrimination & Race Relations, Black Studies (Global), General
Publication Year: 1997
Item Weight: 15.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Josephine Mazzuca, George J. Sefa Dei, Elizabeth Mcisaac
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Education
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
