Discourse, space, and competing narratives -- Space and subjects : security, surveillance, and 'zero tolerance' -- An ethnographic critique -- The situated character of ethnography -- Disenchanted youth, falling test scores, rigourous curriculum and other prevailing myths -- The social and the artistic -- Social dramas : relations of power, gender, and race -- Imaginative trespassing and ethnographic artefacts -- The gay other not among us : sexuality and its guises -- Dark dramas : the occupied imagination -- Pedagogies of conflict -- Alternative literacies and the sociology of aesthetics -- A problem-posing ethnography
Summary
"The Theatre of Urban not only provides new insights into the conflicts that often erupt in highly charged school spaces, it also explores the potential of drama as a powerful medium for personal growth and social change."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-195) and indexes
Notes
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