Reconstructing 'Dropout': A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students' Disengagement from School

by Elizabeth McIsaac, Josephine Mazzuca, George J. Sefa Dei

Book Overview

As many as one million untrained youths will enter the Canadian labour market by the year 2000. And yet, 60 per cent of jobs being created in Canada require at least a high school education. The drop-out rate is one of the most crucial issues that Canadian educators face.

Traditionally, we have pinned dropping out on individual failure or specific situations such as pregnancy, substance abuse, and family troubles. The authors of this book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080208060X
• ISBN13: 9780802080608
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"