Spaces of Difference

The Contradictions of Alternative Educational Programs

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8924603
AutoresJ A Vadeboncoeur (0000-0003-0292-1973, University of British Columbia, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen45
Número3
Páginas280-299
Fecha de publicación2009-05-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEducational Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-1946 • E-ISSN: 1532-6993
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00131940902910974
OpenAlexW2047875874
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas28

Drawing upon the concept of thirdspace (Soja 1996 Soja, Edward W. 1996. Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and other Real-and-Imagined Places, Oxford: Blackwell. [Google Scholar]), this article extends sociocultural theorizations of space in relation to alternative educational programs: programs designed to re-engage youth who have been pushed out of mainstream schools. Snapshots of educational programs, provided by ethnographic research gathered in the United States, Australia, and Canada, foreground the contradictions inherent in these alternative spaces: on one hand, the possibilities obtained for youth through participation, and on the other, the production of these programs through displacement. Alternative educational programs expose the tensions between a democratic ideal of engaging all young people in excellent and equitable public schools and a neo-liberal economic rationality that currently fuels the “sorting machine” function of compulsory schooling

Democracy · Ethnography · Function (biology · Ideal (ethics · Mainstream · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Rationality · Social science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropology · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Law · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics