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Living on the Edge

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Living on the Edge

By John Smyth, Terry Wrigley, Peter McInerney

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About the book

Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education-the nexus between poverty and underachievement. This topic stubbornly remains a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. Living on the Edge maps and compares a number of competing explanations, critiques inadequate and deficit accounts and offers a more convincing and useful theory. The authors challenge the view that proble...Show more

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9781433135101

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Published year

2018

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1

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Living on the Edge

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Paperback

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