TY - BOOK ID - 78674785 TI - These kids : identity, agency, and social justice at a last chance high school PY - 2013 SN - 022603173X 022603142X 9780226031736 1299561012 9781299561014 9780226031422 PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Evening and continuation school students KW - Evening and continuation schools KW - Failure (Psychology) in adolescence. KW - High school dropouts KW - Secondary school dropouts KW - Dropouts KW - High school students KW - Adolescent psychology KW - Continuation schools KW - Evening colleges KW - Evening schools KW - Factory schools KW - Night-schools KW - Continuing education KW - Education, Compulsory KW - Education, Secondary KW - Public schools KW - Schools KW - Technical education KW - Evening students KW - Night school students KW - Students KW - Psychology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78674785 AB - Few would deny that getting ahead is a legitimate goal of learning, but the phrase implies a cruel hierarchy: a student does not simply get ahead, but gets ahead of others. In These Kids, Kysa Nygreen turns a critical eye on this paradox. Offering the voices and viewpoints of students at a "last chance" high school in California, she tells the story of students who have, in fact, been left behind. Detailing a youth-led participatory action research project that she coordinated, Nygreen uncovers deep barriers to educational success that are embedded within educational discourse itself. Struggling students internalize descriptions of themselves as "at risk," "low achieving," or "troubled"-and by adopting the very language of educators, they also adopt its constraints and presumption of failure. Showing how current educational discourse does not, ultimately, provide an adequate vision of change for students at the bottom of the educational hierarchy, she levies a powerful argument that social justice in education is impossible today precisely because of how we talk about it. ER -