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Download full textLeCompte, Margaret Diane; Dworkin, Anthony Gary – 1991
This book examines the thesis that teacher burnout and student dropout stem from the same source, a process of alienation causing students and teachers to "give up on school." The first chapter outlines the size of the problem and some of the specific conditions that contribute to it. The second chapter examines the context of cultural…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Etiology
Kelly, Deirdre, Ed.; Gaskell, Jane, Ed. – 1996
A new, prevailing wisdom is guiding the thinking of policy makers and policy shapers throughout North America; its watchwords are "global competitiveness" and "economic restructuring." The preoccupation with viewing schooling and its role in society through the single lens of global economic competitiveness closes off other…
Descriptors: Alienation, Critical Theory, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Research
