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Girls behind bars : reclaiming education in transformative spaces /

While scholarship on the education of youth behind bars has largely focused on boys, more than one in three youth arrests in the United States is female. Girls Behind Bars sets out to address this imbalance. First, the book offers autobiographies, life-stories, and counter-stories in order to counte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sharma, Suniti
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Continuum International Pub. Group, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Mapping the Journey; Introduction; Experiencing students' life stories; Outline of the book; 2 Foucault's Conditions without a Subject; Introduction; Changing concept of detention; Historical apriori conditions; Educational discourses and detention; Discussion; 3 Making, Unmaking, and Resituating the Subject; Introduction; Modernist subject; Educational subject; Female educational subject of detention; Discussion; 4 Qualitative Methodology, Critical Autoethnography, and Self-reflexivity; Introduction.
  • Ethnographic, autobiographic, and poststructural origins of autoethnographyAutoethnography as a qualitative research methodology; Diverse autoethnographies; 5 Embodied Life-stories and Counter-stories; Introduction; The autoethnographic project; Life-stories and counter-stories; Multiply situated subject-positions; Discussion; 6 Guilty Readings of Other People's Stories; Introduction; Sedimentation, iterability, and performativity; Suspicious montage of subject-positions; Epistemologies of resistance; Discussion; 7 Agents of Change, Not Subjects or Objects of Discourse; Introduction.
  • Dominant discourses and lived experienceResisting and disrupting discourses; Using oppositional methodologies; Teachers as agents of change; Lived experience as curriculum knowledge; Call for action; 8 Girls behind Bars Reclaiming Education in Transformative Spaces; Introduction; How it all began: The first moment January 23, 2003; Message in a bottle: The second moment July 4, 2003; Romeo and Juliet for You: The third moment February 13, 2004; Synthetic snow cones and spicy kebabs:The fourth moment June 21, 2005; Chain by chain: The fifth moment August 1, 2006.
  • The last day: The sixth moment March, 2009New understandings: The seventh moment January, 2012; Author's Notes; List of References; Index.