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Andrew Clements
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Harry Potter
I Am Malala
Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading
Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading
Laurie Halse Anderson
Leslie Marmon Silko
literary canon
Literary Criticism
Malala Yousafzai
Sapphire's Push
Sapphire’s Push
South Park
The Governess
The Simpsons
Tommy Greenwald
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- ISBN 9781496837639
- Weight: 299g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2022
- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The creations discussed are mostly stories for children and young adults. David Aitchison looks at serious novels for teens including Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak and Faiza Guène’s Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow, the light-hearted, middle-grade fiction of Andrew Clements and Tommy Greenwald, and Malala Yousafzai’s autobiography for young readers, I Am Malala. He also responds to stories that take young people as their primary subjects in such novels as Sapphire’s Push and films including Battle Royale and Cooties. Though ranging widely in their accounts of young life, such stories betray a mounting sense of crisis in education around the world, especially in terms of equity (the extent to which students from diverse backgrounds have fair chances of receiving quality education) and empowerment (the extent to which diverse students are encouraged to gain strength, confidence, and selfhood as learners).
Drawing particular attention to the influence of neoliberal initiatives on school experience, this book considers what it means when learning and success are measured more and more by entrepreneurship, competitive individualism, and marketplace gains. Attentive to the ways in which power structures, institutional routines, school spaces, and social relations operate in the contemporary school story, The School Story offers provocative insights into a genre that speaks profoundly to the increasingly precarious position of education in the twenty-first century.
Drawing particular attention to the influence of neoliberal initiatives on school experience, this book considers what it means when learning and success are measured more and more by entrepreneurship, competitive individualism, and marketplace gains. Attentive to the ways in which power structures, institutional routines, school spaces, and social relations operate in the contemporary school story, The School Story offers provocative insights into a genre that speaks profoundly to the increasingly precarious position of education in the twenty-first century.
David Aitchison, a graduate of the writing programs at the University of Glasgow and Boston University, earned his PhD in American literature and history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2012. He is an independent scholar based in Chicago, where he teaches for Chicago Public Schools.
