TY - JOUR
T1 - Locating disconnected minoritized youth within urban community-based educational programs in an Era of Neoliberalism
AU - Lardier, David T.
AU - Herr, Kathryn G.
AU - Bergeson, Carrie
AU - Garcia-Reid, Pauline
AU - Reid, Robert J.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - We explore the experiences of youth who disconnected from their local high schools and resumed their educations in community-based education (CBE) programs offering high school equivalency instruction. Drawing on focus-group interview narratives (N = 59) where youth describe the ‘second chances’ offered to them, we document supportive, encouraging relationships with adults in the CBEs that stand in contrast to their experiences in school. Simultaneously, we suggest that in the face of program narratives that emphasized individual responsibility and success, any critical read of their world articulated earlier by the youth was no longer evident. In essence, they moved from one institution framed by neoliberal tenets to another but in the process, they traded the resistance they exhibited in their public high schools to accommodation in the CBEs. We problematize the discourse of ‘second chances’ if and when it remains uncoupled to analyses of societal and institutional inequity and injustices.
AB - We explore the experiences of youth who disconnected from their local high schools and resumed their educations in community-based education (CBE) programs offering high school equivalency instruction. Drawing on focus-group interview narratives (N = 59) where youth describe the ‘second chances’ offered to them, we document supportive, encouraging relationships with adults in the CBEs that stand in contrast to their experiences in school. Simultaneously, we suggest that in the face of program narratives that emphasized individual responsibility and success, any critical read of their world articulated earlier by the youth was no longer evident. In essence, they moved from one institution framed by neoliberal tenets to another but in the process, they traded the resistance they exhibited in their public high schools to accommodation in the CBEs. We problematize the discourse of ‘second chances’ if and when it remains uncoupled to analyses of societal and institutional inequity and injustices.
KW - community-based educational programs
KW - Disconnected youth
KW - minoritized youth
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074903833&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09518398.2019.1680902
DO - 10.1080/09518398.2019.1680902
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074903833
SN - 0951-8398
JO - International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
JF - International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
ER -