Youth, Education, and Marginality

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Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators provide international insights grounded in educational and community practice and policy. They cover the range and intersections of marginalization: poverty, Aboriginal cultures, immigrants and newcomers, gay/lesbian youth, rural—urban divides, mental health, and so forth. Presenting challenges faced by marginalized youth alongside initiatives for mitigating their impact, the contributors critique existing systems and engage in a dialogue about where to go from here.

Youth poetry, prose, and visual art complement the essays.

Sujets

• Child advocacy
• Education

Informations

• Publié par: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date de parution: 30 mai 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781554586547
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 24 Mo

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Youth, Education,
and MarginalityThis page intentionally left blank Youth, Education,
and Marginality
Local and Global Expressions
Kate Tilleczek and
H. Bruce Ferguson,
editorsWilfrid Laurier University Press acknowledges the fnancial support of the Government
of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Youth, education, and marginality : local and global expressions / Kate Tilleczek and
H. Bruce Ferguson, editors.
(SickKids community and mental health series)
Co-published by: Hospital for Sick Children.
Includes bibliographical references.
Issued also in electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-55458-634-9
1. Youth with social disabilities—Education. 2. Marginality, Social. 3. Educational
sociology. I. Ferguson, H. Bruce II. Tilleczek, Kate, 1963– III. Hospital for Sick Children
IV. Series: SickKids community and mental health series
LC4065.Y68 2013 371.93 C2012-907132-3
——
Electronic monographs.
Issued also in print format.
ISBN 978-1-55458-654-7 (PDF)—ISBN 978-1-55458-329-4 (EPUB)
1. Youth with social disabilities—Education. 2. Marginality, Social. 3. Educational
sociology. I. Ferguson, H. Bruce II. Tilleczek, Kate, 1963– III. Hospital for Sick Children
IV. Series: SickKids community and mental health series (Online)
LC4065.Y68 2013 371.93 C2012-907133-1
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Cover design by Blakeley Words+Pictures. Front-cover image: missed-education, an illustration
by Roberto Louis Foz, based on the photograph Barbed Wire, by Elliott James Tilleczek.
Text design by Brenda Prangley.

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Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
www.wlupress.wlu.caFor all youth of late modernity, that they sing
vivacious songs.
And for the adults who continue to sing
with and for them.This page intentionally left blank contents
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction:
Living Intersections of Marginality 1
Kate Tilleczek and Bruce Ferguson
YOUTH ART: Marginalized Youth by Kira Duf 7
Opening Words:
Youth Poetry and Prose
Bloodline by Tammy Lou 9
A Changing World by Selina Jacqueline Peters 10
Because I Am a Survivor by Sabnam Mahmuda 10
Examining Our Environments by Farrah Chanda Aslam 12
Chapter 1: Humanities-Infused Praxis by, with, and for Youth:
Esoteric Hope 17
Kate Tilleczek and Karima Kinlock
YOUTH ART: Finding Hope by Tamir Holder 41
Chapter 2: Young People Speaking Back from the Margins 43
John Smyth
YOUTH ART: Grey Matters by Zera Koutchieva 59
Chapter 3: The Unique Status of Marginalization: The Birth of
Youth-Empowering Parents 61
Agazi Afewerki and Mohammed Shafque
YOUTH ART: Hunger by Sarah Laurin 73
Chapter 4: Marginal Spaces, Disparate Places: Educational
and Youth Practices in a Globalizing World 75
Jean Mitchell
YOUTH ART: On the Coast 2 by Elliott Tilleczek 91

viiviii contents
Chapter 5: A Time for Dreams: The Right to Education for First
Nations Children and Youth Living On-Reserve 93
Jennifer King, Chelsea Edwards, and Cindy Blackstock
YOUTH ART: Te Blue Bliss by Angel Ho 113
Chapter 6: Marginalization Inside Education: Racialized,
Immigrant, and Aboriginal Youth 115
Joanna Anneke Rummens and George J. Sefa Dei
YOUTH ART: Barbed Wire by Elliott Tilleczek 135
Chapter 7: Marginalized Youth in Education: Social and
Cultural Dimensions of Exclusion in Canada and
the United Kingdom 137
Andy Furlong
YOUTH ART: Tears and Fear bs y Anwesha Sen 153
Chapter 8: On Being Poor in School 155
Kate Tilleczek
Chapter 9: Still Sleeping in the “Gay Tent”? Queer Youth in
Canadian Schools 177
Tom Hilton
YOUTH ART: Two Young Men by Elliott Tilleczek 195
Chapter 10: Narrative Understandings of Lives in (and out
of) Schools 197
Vera Caine, Sean Lessard, Pam Steeves, and D. Jean Clandinin
YOUTH ART: Te Blue Brain Kid by Bria Dobson 217
Chapter 11: Does Special Education Marginalize Young People?:
The Need for Evidence-Informed Practices 219
Peter Chaban
YOUTH ART: Pieces of Me by Andrea Bunnie 227
Chapter 12: Using Visual Arts to Enhance Mental Health Literacy
in Schools 229
Katherine M. Boydellcontents ix
Conclusion:
Moving Forward: With, For, and By Youth
Kate Tilleczek and Bruce Ferguson 241
Closing Words:
Youth Poetry and Prose
Marginalized by Mallory Goss 243
At Risk by Lishai Peel 244
Forgetting the Meaning of … by Maryam Sharif-Razi 246
I Am from … by Alycia Fry 247
Index 249This page intentionally left blank acknowledgements
his book is a celebration. It would not have been possible without the Trelentlessly kind vision of Bruce Ferguson, founder and director of
the Community Health Systems Group at the Hospital for Sick Children in
Toronto. Tis project, like so many others, bears Bruce’s stamp of infectious and
sincere optimism for children and youth, of rigour in social science research,
and of commitments to share our research with many audiences. It was his idea
to launch the Collaborative Research Symposium Series at the Hospital for Sick
Children and gather together the scholars, young people, and educators who
are part of this book. As Bruce predicted, this efort infected and connected
many others.
I would also like to acknowledge and thank all of the young artists and
chapter authors. Tey were unfinching in purpose and a pleasure to work with.
In addition, Karima Kinlock (and Sarah Bovaird before her) at the Hospital
for Sick Children earned the title shepherdess from paradise as did Valerie
Campbell, my research manager at the University of Prince Edward Island.
It was a joy to be assisted in this book project by these bright and dedicated
women. My partner Ron Srigley and my lef-handed sons, William and Elliott,
help to keep it real. Tey continue to inspire and critique my work by, with, and
form arginalized young people. It is with them that I write.
Kate Tilleczek
xixii acknowledgements
I want to thank the authors of this volume for bringing breadth and inten-Isity to this important area. I am grateful to my co-editor for creating a
process that was not only always committed to excellence but also edifying and
fun. Sarah Bovaird and Karima Kinlock worked hard to make it easy for me to
contribute to the process. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the members of
the Community Health Systems Resource Group at Hospital for Sick Children
whose passion, focus, and knowledge keep me humble and curious and
maintain my conviction that together we can and will make a diference in the lives
of our children and youth.
H. Bruce Fergusonintroduction
Living Intersections of Marginality
Kate Tilleczek and Bruce Ferguson
First get off the streets, second get a job, third finish your education so
you can get a career. So it is like steps at a time. It is like some people
have those things already and they are lucky that they have those things
already handed to them and they don’t have to start at the bottom and
work their way up. They don’t understand what that is like. Starting at
the bottom is … I am slowly getting there. I’m not there, but I am slowly
1getting there. (Max)
his book provides evidence and discussion about the ways in which Canadian Tschools are not always doing well by young people in late modernity. Te
contributors of this book provide both local and global contexts, data,
experiences, and lessons. Tis variability has been with us since the early twentieth
century when many young people did not attend or complete school in Canada’s
emerging compulsory education system (Davies and Guppy, 2006). Today too
many students are still struggling with schooling and too many schools are still
struggling with students. We have commented previously that new
understandings about the nuan