Re-engaging Disconnected Youth; Transformative Learning through Restorative and Social Justice Education - Paperback

As many young adults continue to disengage with learning each day, teachers and administrators struggle to find programming that re-engages secondary students with their schooling and communities. This book profiles one program that succeeds in doing so, and should serve as a model for others. In a Midwestern alternative school, three teachers built a curriculum around hands-on learning, restorative justice Talking Circles, and multicultural education, in the hopes that it would re-engage and inspire youth. Drawing on adult transformative learning theory, this book is an in-depth, qualitative study of the ways the program transformed adult and youth perceptions of trust, connections, schooling, and human rights. This book breaks down stereotypes about youth labeled at-risk and provides evidence that it is never too late to become passionate about learning.

• | Author: Joseph L. DeVitis
• | Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• | Publication Date: Jan 12, 2011
• | Number of Pages: 164 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1433110040
• | ISBN-13: 9781433110047