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"It's Like We're One Big Family": Marginalized Young People, Community, and the Implications for Urban Schooling
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Gosine, Kevin; Islam, Faisal – School Community Journal, 2014
This qualitative study explored the perceptions and experiences of high school students from a diverse, low-income urban community in Toronto, Canada. Findings revealed a strong sense of community, reinforced by the interlocking racial and class oppression and stigmatization participants experienced within the broader society, including school.…
Descriptors: High School Students, Qualitative Research, Low Income Groups, Disadvantaged Youth
Re-Bordering Spaces of Trauma: Auto-Ethnographic Reflections on the Immigrant and Refugee Experience in an Inner-City High School in Toronto
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Feuerverger, Grace – International Review of Education, 2011
The objective of this research study is to offer a glimpse into the lives of some newly-arrived students of different racial, linguistic and religious backgrounds as they confront the process of immigration and therefore personal and social displacement within the context of a Toronto inner-city high school. These students carry with them hidden…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Refugees
Listening to Rap: Cultures of Crime, Cultures of Resistance
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Tanner, Julian; Asbridge, Mark; Wortley, Scot – Social Forces, 2009
This research compares representations of rap music with the self-reported criminal behavior and resistant attitudes of the music's core audience. Our database is a large sample of Toronto high school students (n = 3,393) from which we identify a group of listeners, whose combination of musical likes and dislikes distinguish them as rap univores.…
Descriptors: Music, Subcultures, Delinquency, Audiences