Learning from the Margins: Young Women, Social Exclusion and Education

by McLeod; Julie

• ISBN13: 9780415411332
• ISBN10: 0415411335
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection of ground-breaking international essays address the educational, social, work and biographical experiences of young women who are routinely constructed as ?at risk? and on the margins. Drawing on research from an international range of scholars, this book brings together important new perspectives on the gendered dimensions of social exclusion and educational marginalisation. It offers practitioners as well as researchers insights into how to ?research? social marginalisation and reflections on projects and programmes that have attempted to do so. Chapters investigate key topics such as: early school leaving indigenous young women and schooling pregnant and parenting young women at school constructions of health, subjectivity and social class the politics of ethnicity. Provocative and insightful, this book will make interesting reading to students and post-graduate students of education, youth studies, gender studies, sociology andsocial work.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. iii
List of Contributors	p. iv
Young women 'on the margins: representation, research and politics
'The stigma that goes with living here': Social-spatial vulnerability in poor neighbourhoods
Female youth homelessness in urban Canada: Space, representation and the contemporary female subject
Inventing adulthoods: A biographical approach to understanding young lives
Cross-generational conversations - talking about school and family
'You cannot just sit there and just accept what they say': Ethnic minority Indian teenage schoolgirls in contemporary postcolonial Malaysia
Social class, femininity and school sport
Policy hysteria in action: Teenage parents at secondary school in Australia
The lived experience of Australian government mutual obligations policies: creating shadow and preferred policy subjects
The relational dimension of 'effective schooling' for marginalized young women
"At school I am just like everyone else": teenage pregnancy, schooling and educational outcomes
Assembling selves: 'choice' and the classed and gendered schooling experiences of 'marginalized' young women
Generations of hope - questions about justice and the everyday as mothers and daughters look to a better life
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