Troublemakers : : Lessons in Freedom From Young Children at School

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Education / General / Shalaby, Carla, 371.93 Sh
On Shelf At: Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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"In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young "troublemakers," challenging the ways we identify and understand so-called problem children. Time and again, we make seemingly endless efforts to moderate, punish, and even medicate our children, when we should instead be concerned with transforming the very nature of our institutions, systems, and structures, large and small. Through delicately crafted portraits of these memorable children--Zora, Lucas, Sean, and Marcus--Troublemakers allows us to see school through the eyes of those who know firsthand what it means to be labeled a problem. From Zora's proud individuality to Marcus's open willfulness, from Sean's struggle with authority to Lucas's tenacious imagination, comes profound insight--for educators and parents alike--into how schools engender, exclude, and then try to erase trouble, right along with the young people accused of making it. And although the harsh disciplining of adolescent behavior has been called out as part of a school-to-prison pipeline, the children we meet in these pages demonstrate how a child's path to excessive punishment and exclusion in fact begins at a much younger age. Shalaby's empathetic, discerning, and elegant prose gives us a deeply textured look at what noncompliance signals about the environments we require students to adapt to in our schools. Both urgent and timely, this paradigm-shifting book challenges our typical expectations for young children and with principled affection reveals how these demands--despite good intentions--work to undermine the pursuit of a free and just society"-- Provided by publisher.

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Empathetic and Insightful submitted by shawn_severance on August 4, 2017, 9:49am The author tells the story of 4 young "troublemakers" and through this you see what lies underneath their behaviour, and how the typical approach of reward, punish, exclude just makes their problems worse.

Great for teachers submitted by Xris on June 18, 2023, 5:21pm The note to teachers and the note to readers at the end was great! This book doesn't apply for me as much, since it was elementary and I work in middle, but I think it can still find useful stuff. Want my daughter to read it, since she's studying to be a teacher.