{"product_id":"the-school-story-young-adult-narratives-in-the-age-of-neoliberalism-paperback","title":"The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Aitchison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism\u003c\/i\u003e examines the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The creations discussed are mostly stories for children and young adults. David Aitchison looks at serious novels for teens including Laurie Halse Anderson's \u003ci\u003eSpeak\u003c\/i\u003e and Faiza Guène's \u003ci\u003eKiffe Kiffe Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e, the light-hearted, middle-grade fiction of Andrew Clements and Tommy Greenwald, and Malala Yousafzai's autobiography for young readers, \u003ci\u003eI Am Malala\u003c\/i\u003e. He also responds to stories that take young people as their primary subjects in such novels as Sapphire's \u003ci\u003ePush\u003c\/i\u003e and films including \u003ci\u003eBattle Royale\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCooties\u003c\/i\u003e. Though ranging widely in their accounts of young life, such stories betray a mounting sense of crisis in education around the world, especially in terms of equity (the extent to which students from diverse backgrounds have fair chances of receiving quality education) and empowerment (the extent to which diverse students are encouraged to gain strength, confidence, and selfhood as learners). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing particular attention to the influence of neoliberal initiatives on school experience, this book considers what it means when learning and success are measured more and more by entrepreneurship, competitive individualism, and marketplace gains. Attentive to the ways in which power structures, institutional routines, school spaces, and social relations operate in the contemporary school story, \u003ci\u003eThe School Story \u003c\/i\u003eoffers provocative insights into a genre that speaks profoundly to the increasingly precarious position of education in the twenty-first century.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Aitchison\u003c\/b\u003e, a graduate of the writing programs at the University of Glasgow and Boston University, earned his PhD in American literature and history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012. He is an independent scholar based in Chicago, where he teaches for Chicago Public Schools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47502910652594,"sku":"9781496837639","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/a3797ce2a41e39ea391d1ad2cc98e62a.webp?v=1779475532","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-school-story-young-adult-narratives-in-the-age-of-neoliberalism-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}