Learning freedom : reflections on the lived experiences of disenfranchised students
Date
2003
Authors
Dyer, Cheryl Lenardon
University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education
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Publisher
Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2003
Abstract
In this phenomenological reflective study students in a high school alternative program
were invited to talk together about their school experiences. The transcribed text provided
an opportunity for reflection on what the experience of school is like for disenfranchised
students to help teachers know how to act in pedagogic relation with these students and
all students. The students' descriptions were organized around the existentials of lived
body, lived space, lived time, and lived relation with other. Themes recovered included
neglect of basic needs, fixedness in time, segregation and exclusion, and control in
relationships. The unifying theme that emerged was freedom and there is discussion
about the potential of the institution of school to address physical, spatial, temporal, and
relational conditions to develop student capacity for freedom.
Description
ix, 142 leaves ; 29 cm. --
Keywords
High school students -- Attitudes , Education, Secondary -- Social aspects , High school students -- Social conditions