Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions

by Kate Tilleczek (Editor), H. Bruce Ferguson (Editor)

Overview

Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators are complemented by youth poetry, prose, and visual art.

The book includes insights from Australia, United Kingdom, Polynesia, United States, and Canada and is grounded in educational and community practice and policy. The content covers the range and intersections of marginalization: poverty, Aboriginal cultures, immigrants and newcomers, gay/lesbian youth, rural–urban divides, mental health, and so forth. Presenting challenges faced by marginalized youth alongside initiatives for mitigating their impact, the contributors critique existing systems and engage in a dialogue about where to go from here.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781554586349
Publisher:	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2013
Series:	SickKids Community and Mental Health Series , #3
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Kate Tilleczek is a Canada Research Chair in Child/Youth Cultures and Transitions as well as an associate professor in the Faculty of Education with a cross appointment to the Department of Sociology at the University of Prince Edward Island. She is also an adjunct health systems research scientist in the Learning Institute’s Community Health Systems Resource Group at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

H. Bruce Ferguson was the founding director of the Community Health Systems Resource Group at the Hospital for Sick Children and is a professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Psychology and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction: Living Intersections of Marginality Kate Tilleczek Bruce Ferguson 1

Youth Art: Marginalized Youth Kira Duff 7

Opening Words: Youth Poetry and Prose Bloodline Tammy Lou 9

A Changing World Selina Jacqueline Peters 10

Because I Am a Survivor Sabnam Mahmuda 10

Examining Our Environments Farrah Chanda Aslam 12

Chapter 1 Humanities-Infused Praxis by, with, and for Youth: Esoteric Hope Kate Tilleczek Karima Kinlock 17

Youth Art: Finding Hope Tamir Holder 41

Chapter 2 Young People Speaking Back from the Margins John Smyth 43

Youth Art: Grey Matters Zera Koutchieva 59

Chapter 3 The Unique Status of Marginalization: The Birth of Youth-Empowering Parents Agazi Afewerki Mohammed Shafique 61

Youth Art: Hunger Sarah Laurin 73

Chapter 4 Marginal Spaces, Disparate Places: Educational and Youth Practices in a Globalizing World Jean Mitchell 75

Youth Art: On the Coast 2 Elliott Tilleczek 91

Chapter 5 A Time for Dreams: The Right to Education for First Nations Children and Youth Living On-Reserve Jennifer King Chelsea Edwards Cindy Blackstock 93

Youth Art: The Blue Bliss Angel Ho 113

Chapter 6 Marginalization Inside Education: Racialized, Immigrant, and Aboriginal Youth Joanna Anneke Rummens George J. Sefa Dei 115

Youth Art: Barbed Wire Elliott Tilleczek 135

Chapter 7 Marginalized Youth in Education: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Exclusion in Canada and the United Kingdom Andy Furlong 137

Youth Art: Tears and Fears Anwesha Sen 153

Chapter 8 On Being Poor in School Kate Tilleczek 155

Chapter 9 Still Sleeping in the "Gay Tent"? Queer Youth in Canadian Schools Tom Hilton 177

Youth Art: Two Young Men Elliott Tilleczek 195

Chapter 10 Narrative Understandings of Lives in (and out of) Schools Vera Caine Sean Lessard Pam Steeves D. Jean Clandinin 197

Youth Art: The Blue Brain Kid Bria Dobson 217

Chapter 11 Does Special Education Marginalize Young People?: The Need for Evidence-Informed Practices Peter Chaban 219

Youth Art: Pieces of Me Andrea Bunnie 227

Chapter 12 Using Visual Arts to Enhance Mental Health Literacy in Schools Katherine M. Boydell 229

Conclusion: Moving Forward: With, For, and By Youth Kate Tilleczek Bruce Ferguson 241

Closing Words: Youth Poetry and Prose Marginalized Mallory Goss 243

At Risk Lishai Peel 244

Forgetting the Meaning of… Maryam Sharif-Razi 246

I Am from… Alycia Fry 247

Index 249