The Rose That Grew from Concrete: Teaching and Learning with Disenfranchised Youth

By Diane Wishart

Quality of education is a topic as important to Canadians as national health care, but what happens when students start to fall between the cracks in the system? Diane Wishart interviewed many at-risk students in an urban high school, including a number of aboriginal students. What Wishart discovered weren't statistics, but teens and their experiences, needs, and personalities. The qualitative analysis that comes from these interviews doesn't supply a blueprint to fix the educational system. What it does do is give a fresh, objective viewpoint for policy makers, scholars, teachers, and the general public to consider.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888645163
• ISBN13: 9780888645166
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up