Schools as Protection? Reinventing Education in Contexts of Adversit
In 1900 the Swedish social theorist Ellen Key launched the idea of a Century of the Child. Recent media reports, from shooting and racial violence in the US to the latest news from ISIS-dominated areas provide a darker vision: it is certainly not a time f
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Schools as Protection? Reinventing Education in Contexts of Adversity Introduction by Vachel Miller
Schools as Protection?
Bjorn H. Nordtveit
Schools as Protection? Reinventing Education in Contexts of Adversity Introduction by Vachel Miller
Bjorn H. Nordtveit Center for International Education, College of Education University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-25650-4 ISBN 978-3-319-25651-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-25651-1
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Acknowledgements
This book is written in the hope to provoke thinking outside-the-box. It is written to give a voice to those children we so easily forget: those working, those being bullied, those being afraid and unhappy in school and those simply wishing to learn to read. Many people have contributed to the book; first and foremost the children I have interviewed and discussed with. The book is dedicated to them. Also, I would like to thank Vachel Miller, Professor at the Appalachian State University for reading a first draft of the book and providing many insightful comments, and for writing a thoughtful and compassionate introduction. Jayne Symons from the University of Hong Kong provided invaluable comments on the chapter on child marriage and generously shared materials from her own research in Sudan. Also, Trey Menefee of the Hong Kong Institute of Education read my earlier papers on complexity theory, which he then very gently deconstructed. My new reflection on complexity is largely influenced by our correspondence, for which I am very grateful. Further, I would like to thank personnel at the US Department of Labor and the International Rescue Committee for the work they are doing to fight for children’s right
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