'Dropping Out', Drifting Off, Being Excluded: Becoming Somebody Without School

by John Smyth and Robert Hattam

This book deals with one of the most urgent, damaging, and complex issues affecting young lives and contemporary society in general - the escalating high school dropout rate. Though against the wishes of teachers and school administrators, young people's decision to leave school is usually made under circumstances that provide little time or space for discussion. This book provides a disturbing account of how students' voices are over-ridden - lost...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820455075
• ISBN13: 9780820455075
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"