Navigating Conflict: How Youth Handle Trouble in a High-Poverty School

by Michael Musheno and Calvin Morrill

Book Overview

Urban schools are often associated with violence, chaos, and youth aggression. But is this reputation really the whole picture? In Navigating Conflict, Calvin Morrill and Michael Musheno challenge the violence-centered conventional wisdom of urban youth studies, revealing instead the social ingenuity with which teens informally and peacefully navigate strife-ridden peer trouble. Taking as their focus a multi-ethnic, high-poverty school in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022652373X
• ISBN13: 9780226523736
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"