"Dropping Out," Drifting Off, Being Excluded : Becoming Somebody Without School

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi PART I INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 Capturing the Voices of Early School Leavers 3(34) Getting Oriented 3(9) Interrupting Habitual Readings 12(5) Naming the Problem-Perspective Is Everything 17(2) Developing a Research Orientation 19(8) Dialectical Theory-Building 27(2) Representing Lives in Portraits 29(3) Organization of the Book 32(5) PART II CONSTELLATION OF ORIENTING CONCEPTS Chapter 2 Contextualizing Early School Leaving: Globalization, the State and Schools 37(30) Navigating a Transition 37(1) Mapping Context-Globalization 38(2) The Process of Economic Globalization 40(7) Socio-cultural and Technological Globalization 47(1) "Going for a Job" 48(6) "Getting Training" 54(1) "Going to University" 54(2) The Nature of the Contemporary Secondary School 56(10) What Does All of This Mean? 66(1) Chapter 3 Becoming Somebody with or without School 67(30) Youth Identity Formation 68(5) Interferences 73(1) The Impact of Media Culture 74(2) Children Are Now Seen and Want to Be Heard 76(4) Thinking about Suicide 80(1) The Use and Abuse of Illegal Substances 81(1) Friendships 82(10) Becoming Economically Independent: Learning about Work without School 92(5) PART III INDIVIDUAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES Chapter 4 Doing Identity Work: Class, Race and Gender 97(38) Class/Gender/Race in Constellation 98(2) Class as a Site of Identity Formation 100(13) Gendered School Leaving 113(1) Gender Difference and Schooling 114(4) The Wage-Labor Identity of Young Women 118(2) Post-school Options: Aspirations for Their Future 120(3) Harassment: Disciplining Gender Identities 123(5) Dealing with Racism 128(3) Interactive Trouble in Post-compulsory Schooling 131(4) Chapter 5 The Making of Young Lives with/against the School Credential 135(20) How Did the Credential Construct Young People? 138(5) How Did Young People Contest and Negotiate the Credential? 143(5) How Did the Credential Constitute an Impediment to Completion? 148(4) Whose Knowledge and Skills Were Celebrated, and Whose Excluded? 152(3) Chapter 6 School Culture and Student Voices in Early School Leaving 155(36) School Culture as an Orienting Theory 156(5) Cultural Geography of the School around Early School Leaving 161(6) Voices of Students on School Culture 167(17) Cultural Geography and the Crossing of School Boundaries 184(2) School Culture and Youth Identity Formation 186 PART IV CONCLUSION Chapter 7 Grappling with the Mis-matches: Themes, Questions, Action 191(6) Notes 197(2) References 199(14) Index 213