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High School Equivalency as Counter‐Space
Author(s) -
Schwartz Joni
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
new directions for adult and continuing education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0717
pISSN - 1052-2891
DOI - 10.1002/ace.20112
Subject(s) - ethnography , sociology , perspective (graphical) , critical race theory , critical ethnography , opposition (politics) , space (punctuation) , critical theory , gender studies , pedagogy , race (biology) , economic justice , political science , anthropology , law , visual arts , art , linguistics , philosophy , politics
This chapter is based on the findings of an ethnographic study of an urban General Education Development (GED ® ) program and suggests that, for some marginalized African American and other young men of color, adult education programs are counter‐spaces (Yosso, Ceja, Smith, & Solorzano, [Yosso, T., 2009]) of spatial justice in opposition to previous negative school spaces. The chapter is framed from the perspective of critical race theory.