Authors: Margaret Diane Lecompte, Anthony G. Dworkin, Anthony Gary Dworkin, Anthony Gary Dworkin
ISBN-13: 9780803934917, ISBN-10: 0803934912
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Corwin Press
Date Published: October 1991
Edition: New Edition
Students aren't just dropping out of school, they're dumping it. Teachers aren't just quitting, they're running. Each group may blame the other, but they're running from the same problems, not each other. Both are victims of the alienation process that prevails in schools and is cultivated by conditions within the school, the community, and society at large.
According to the authors, attempts to decrease dropouts and burnouts have failed because reformers have approached them as two distinct problems. The root causes are the same in each and "mandate an immediate and drastic reappraisal".
Giving Up on School is the culmination of years of sociological and anthropolgical research in school setting.
List of Figures and Tables | vi | |
Preface | vii | |
About the Authors | xi | |
1. | Introduction | 1 |
2. | The Contemporary Context of Cultural Expectations | 20 |
3. | Turned Off, Tuned Out, Dropped Out | 42 |
4. | Creating Failure: Why Students Drop Out | 56 |
5. | The Who and Why of Teacher Burnout | 90 |
6. | To Quit or Not to Quit | 121 |
7. | Alienation and Schools | 145 |
8. | Giving Up on School: A Process Model | 182 |
9. | Why School Reforms Fail | 194 |
10. | Conclusion: Some Modest and Not So Modest Proposals | 228 |
References | 264 | |
Author Index | 288 | |
Subject Index | 296 |