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The theatre of urban : youth and schooling in dangerous times / Kathleen Gallagher.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442683891
  • 1442683899
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Theatre of urban.DDC classification:
  • 373.18/09713541
LOC classification:
  • PN3171 .G34 2007eb
Other classification:
  • 5,3
  • DV 2395
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Review: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-195) and indexes.

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.

"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.

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