Description: Title: Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School Author: Shalaby, Carla Publisher: New Press Binding: Hardcover Pages: 240 Dimensions: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.90d Product Weight: 0.85 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781620972366 A radical educator's paradigm-shifting inquiry into the accepted, normal demands of school, as illuminated by moving portraits of four young problem children In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young troublemakers, challenging the ways we identify and understand so-called problem children. Time and again, we make seemingly endless efforts to moderate, punish, and even medicate our children, when we should instead be concerned with transforming the very nature of our institutions, systems, and structures, large and small. Through delicately crafted portraits of these memorable children--Zora, Lucas, Sean, and Marcus--Troublemakers allows us to see school through the eyes of those who know firsthand what it means to be labeled a problem. From Zora's proud individuality to Marcus's open willfulness, from Sean's struggle with authority to Lucas's tenacious imagination, comes profound insight--for educators and parents alike--into how schools engender, exclude, and then try to erase trouble, right along with the young people accused of making it. And although the harsh disciplining of adolescent behavior has been called out as part of a school-to-prison pipeline, the children we meet in these pages demonstrate how a child's path to excessive punishment and exclusion in fact begins at a much younger age. Shalaby's empathetic, discerning, and elegant prose gives us a deeply textured look at what noncompliance signals about the environments we require students to adapt to in our schools. Both urgent and timely, this paradigm-shifting book challenges our typical expectations for young children and with principled affection reveals how these demands--despite good intentions--work to undermine the pursuit of a free and just society. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: New Press
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Name: Troublemakers : Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
Language: English
Publisher: New Press, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Behavioral Management, General, Classroom Management, Elementary
Item Weight: 13.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Education
Author: Carla Shalaby
Item Length: 8.4 in
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
