Activist and socially critical school and community renewal : : social justice in exploitative times / / John Smyth.

• Superior document: Transgressions ; 35
• TeilnehmendeR: Smyth, John, 1944-
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Transgressions (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; What this book is about /; Putting teachers and communities into policy reclamation: countering educational ‘discourses of deceit’ /; Relational solidarity: harbinger of a paradigmatic shift in school and community renewal /; Taking a stand against school effectiveness: pursing a pedagogy of hope /; Engaging meaningful work /; New Storylines on school/community renewal /; References /; Author Index /; Subject Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [141]-154) and indexes.
• ISBN: 9087906544
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John Smyth.

Activist and Socially Critical School and Community Renewal comes about at an incredibly important point in history, and it offers a genuinely new paradigm. This book attempts what few others have tried—to bring together knowledge and literature around school reform and community renewal through authentic ethnographic stories of real schools and communities. The book describes and analyzes a courageous struggle for a more socially just world, around notions of relational solidarity that speak back to ideas that continue to privilege the already advantaged. This book provides some desperately needed new storylines as a basis for school and community renewal for the most excluded groups in society. It provides a new social imagination for ‘doing school’ in contexts that stand to benefit from school and community voiced approaches.