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Becoming Educated

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

Becoming Educated

By Peter McInerney, John Smyth

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About the book

Becoming Educated examines the education of young people, especially those from the most `disadvantaged' contexts. The book argues that because the focus has been obdurately and willfully on the wrong things - blaming students; measuring, testing and comparing them; and treating families and communities in demeaning ways that convert them into mere `consumers' - that the resulting misdiagnoses have produced a damaging ensemble of faulty `solutions.' By shifting the emphasis to looking at what is...Show more

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ISBN

9781433122125

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Published year

2014

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1

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Becoming Educated

Format

Hardcover

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