Beschreibung
This book – grounded in twelve months of critical ethnographic fieldwork at a secondary school in North America – examines how educators and educational leaders pathologize the lived experiences of South Asian boys or «Brown boys», and how they engage in deficit theorizing discourses and practices.
Autorenportrait
Anish Sayani (PhD in educational leadership, University of British Columbia) teaches in the faculty of education at UBC. He also consults for the Ismaili Tariqah and Religious Education Board (ITREB), Canada, in the area of educational leadership and teacher development.
Rezension
«Beautifully and forcefully written, thorough and well documented, ‘The Pathologizing and Complicity of «Brown Boys»’ is a powerful, disturbing, and provocative examination of the experiences of a group of marginalized high school students.» (Carolyn M. Shields, Wayne State University)
«The author provides detailed descriptions of what people who work in schools do to reproduce social ine-quality and, by implication, what well-meaning school people could do to reverse this all-too-common out-come of schooling.» (Robert Donmoyer, University of San Diego)
«Beautifully and forcefully written, thorough and well documented, ‘The Pathologizing and Complicity of «Brown Boys»’ is a powerful, disturbing, and provocative examination of the experiences of a group of marginalized high school students.» (Carolyn M. Shields, Wayne State University)
«The author provides detailed descriptions of what people who work in schools do to reproduce social ine-quality and, by implication, what well-meaning school people could do to reverse this all-too-common out-come of schooling.» (Robert Donmoyer, University of San Diego)
Inhalt
Contents: There Is Something Wrong with the Brown Boys – Where Do These Boys Come From? – Positioning of the Boys – The Brown Boys or Brown Crew – Criminalization of the Brown Boys’ Attitudes, Behaviours, and Actions – The Brown Boys’ Take – Deficit Thinking – Pathologizing Practices Embedded in the School Culture – Complicity of the Brown Boys – Conclusions, Implications, and Recommendations.
