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

• Education

Informations

• Publié par: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date de parution: 12 juin 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781554583294
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Youth, Education, and Marginality
Youth, Education, and Marginality
Local and Global Expressions
Kate Tilleczek and H. Bruce Ferguson, editors
Wilfrid Laurier University Press acknowledges the financial 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
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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
2013 The Hospital for Sick Children
DISCLAIMER: This book is a general guide only and should never be a substitute for the skill, knowledge, and experience of a qualified medical professional dealing with the facts, circumstances, and symptoms of a particular case.
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.
This book is printed on FSC recycled paper and is certified Ecologo. It is made from 100% post-consumer fibre, processed chlorine free, and manufactured using biogas energy.
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For all youth of late modernity, that they sing vivacious songs. And for the adults who continue to sing with and for them.
contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction:

Living Intersections of Marginality

Kate Tilleczek and Bruce Ferguson

YOUTH ART: Marginalized Youth by Kira Duff
Opening Words:

Youth Poetry and Prose

Bloodline by Tammy Lou

A Changing World by Selina Jacqueline Peters

Because I Am a Survivor by Sabnam Mahmuda

Examining Our Environments by Farrah Chanda Aslam
Chapter 1:
Humanities-Infused Praxis by , with , and for Youth: Esoteric Hope

Kate Tilleczek and Karima Kinlock

YOUTH ART: Finding Hope by Tamir Holder
Chapter 2:
Young People Speaking Back from the Margins

John Smyth

YOUTH ART: Grey Matters by Zera Koutchieva
Chapter 3:
The Unique Status of Marginalization: The Birth of Youth-Empowering Parents

Agazi Afewerki and Mohammed Shafique

YOUTH ART: Hunger by Sarah Laurin
Chapter 4:
Marginal Spaces, Disparate Places: Educational and Youth Practices in a Globalizing World

Jean Mitchell

YOUTH ART: On the Coast 2 by Elliott Tilleczek
Chapter 5:
A Time for Dreams: The Right to Education for First Nations Children and Youth Living On-Reserve

Jennifer King, Chelsea Edwards, and Cindy Blackstock

YOUTH ART: The Blue Bliss by Angel Ho
Chapter 6:
Marginalization Inside Education: Racialized, Immigrant, and Aboriginal Youth

Joanna Anneke Rummens and George J. Sefa Dei

YOUTH ART: Barbed Wire by Elliott Tilleczek
Chapter 7:
Marginalized Youth in Education: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Exclusion in Canada and the United Kingdom

Andy Furlong

YOUTH ART: Tears and Fears by Anwesha Sen
Chapter 8:
On Being Poor in School

Kate Tilleczek
Chapter 9:
Still Sleeping in the Gay Tent ? Queer Youth in Canadian Schools

Tom Hilton

YOUTH ART: Two Young Men by Elliott Tilleczek
Chapter 10:
Narrative Understandings of Lives in (and out of) Schools

Vera Caine, Sean Lessard, Pam Steeves, and D. Jean Clandinin

YOUTH ART: The Blue Brain Kid by Bria Dobson
Chapter 11:
Does Special Education Marginalize Young People?: The Need for Evidence-Informed Practices

Peter Chaban

YOUTH ART: Pieces of Me by Andrea Bunnie
Chapter 12:
Using Visual Arts to Enhance Mental Health Literacy in Schools

Katherine M. Boydell
Conclusion:

Moving Forward: With, For , and By Youth

Kate Tilleczek and Bruce Ferguson
Closing Words:

Youth Poetry and Prose

Marginalized by Mallory Goss

At Risk by Lishai Peel

Forgetting the Meaning of by Maryam Sharif-Razi

I Am from by Alycia Fry
Index
acknowledgements
T his book is a celebration. It would not have been possible without the relentlessly kind vision of Bruce Ferguson, founder and director of the Community Health Systems Group at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. This 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 effort infected and connected many others.
I would also like to acknowledge and thank all of the young artists and chapter authors. They were unflinching 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 left-handed sons, William and Elliott, help to keep it real. They continue to inspire and critique my work by , with , and for marginalized young people. It is with them that I write.
Kate Tilleczek
I want to thank the authors of this volume for bringing breadth and intensity 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 difference in the lives of our children and youth.
H. Bruce Ferguson
introduction
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 getting there . (Max) 1
T his book provides evidence and discussion about the ways in which Canadian schools are not always doing well by young people in late modernity. The contributors of this book provide both local and global contexts, data, experiences, and lessons. This 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 nuances in young lives have shown that too simple a conclusion cannot be drawn about who is marginalized, how, or what should be done:
One student s coming out as gay or lesbian may be celebrated in one school and community but lead to violent shunning in another. One Aboriginal community s young people live with a host of positive inspirations while another community continues to mourn the loss of their young. The daily hassles experienced by some youth living in poor families or newcomers to Canada are met with serious concern by one teacher but not by another teacher in the same school. And, the shunning or support is ne