...Sebastian Engelmann Abstract This paper aspires to show the often-obscured structure of alternatives in education. Alternative education is generally understood as an umbrella term for educational thought and practice for and in schools differing from an assumed ‘mainstream’, where ‘alternative...

... possibilities one is willing to consider. Monuments, history history colonialism controversy epistemic diversity alternative education One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. – W.E.B. DuBois ¹ Large protests...

... Association of Social Workers, Inc. 2001 Abstract The process evaluation discussed in this article examined the psychosocial services of students who were assigned to an alternative educational program for disciplinary reasons. The psychosocial services were those specified in each student's individualized...

... boarding schools and activism Indian scholarship on assimilation AIM’s resistance to community control as decolonization Leech Lake reservation Minnesota Miller Susan American Indian Minnesota Midwest Alternative Education Activism Education Assimilation Colonialism Decolonization Public...

... materials North High School South High School open school model St Paul Open School Benton Banai Eddie as AIM organizer in Twin Cities funding conflicts over Australia New Zealand Roy family O’Brien Jim Franklin Avenue American Indian Minnesota Midwest Alternative Education Activism...

... Midwest Alternative Education Activism Education Assimilation Colonialism Decolonization Public School On a bright, invigorating morning in late September, a dozen Indian kindergarten students gathered in the cafeteria of the Heart of the Earth School in Minneapolis for a half hour...

... with compromised immune systems to attend school. Thus, depending on the medical course and presentation, an alternative educational setting is often necessary for students with chronic health conditions. This chapter provides a review of the legal support for alternative educational settings and then reviews...

... where to find the rent. Other youth faced educational challenges. Some complimented the part-time and alternative education options available to them, at least in terms of their availability, as well as the interest of the teachers and staff, the flexibility of the curriculum, and the possibility...

... within a longer historical trajectory of public education and educational travel and traces its connections to other alternative education movements such as homeschooling and unschooling. It documents a tendency among worldschoolers to adopt an unschooling approach to children’s learning, which means...

...Chapter 2 overviews social alternatives. A discussion of alternative education looks at free universities, A.S. Neill’s writings and his school, Summerhill, Paolo Freire’s argument for dialogical education, and Illich’s advocacy of deschooling. Then the focus is on communal alternatives...

... Yuan Yu Carraher David evolution Schliemann Analucia Goodman Sally Pavesi Giulio Innovation Unit REAL Projects Berg Jodie Handy Charles Norton Michael expectancies “bright” curriculum predictabilities alternative education Education systems serve a wide variety of stated functions...

...This chapter introduces the main arguments and structure of the book. It sets out a broad definition of ‘alternative education’. It maps some of the social, economic and political contexts in which alternative education takes place, and especially trends in UK education policy-making. The chapter...

... three theoretical strands that inform the analysis and which each defy simple labels: ‘radical’ theories of education, informal education, and alternative education; diverse economic and autonomous geographies; nonrepresentational geographies and the politics of life-itself. Cross-reference to longer...

... in this book. Each section ends with a note on the distribution of each type of alternative education in the UK (and elsewhere, where appropriate) and a note on the kinds of examples visited in the course of the research for this book. There is relatively little academic research regarding some educational...

...This chapter builds on and extends previous definitions of ‘alternative education’. By drawing directly upon the views of educators and learners involved in alternative learning spaces, a key spatial frame of reference is introduced: connection/disconnection. The chapter considers diverse ways...

... founders and parents boarding schools and Leech Lake reservation Minnesota discipline in mission boarding schools Anishinaabe Anishinaabeg cultural revitalization of “assimilationist imperative ” “Indigenousness ” American Indian Minnesota Midwest Alternative Education Activism Education...

... materials Bellanger Lisa community cultural leadership of Three Fires Three Fires Confederacy discipline in mission boarding schools adult education programs American Indian Minnesota Midwest Alternative Education Activism Education Assimilation Colonialism Decolonization Public School...

... school status No Child Left Behind Pourier Joel juvenile justice system AIM’s activism and parent–school relationships in survival schools open school model White Walter Porky volunteers family community members as instruction American Indian Minnesota Midwest Alternative Education Activism...

...This chapter describes best practices in designing and establishing alternative education schools and programs for students who are at risk of dropping out of school as a result of truancy, poor grades, disruptive behavior, pregnancy, repeated suspensions, or expulsions. Following a brief overview...