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Saving At-Risk Youth: Building Community and Re-engaging Dropouts at an Alternative, Christian High School
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ABSTRACT
Saving At-Risk Youth:
Building Community and Re-engaging Dropouts
at an Alternative, Christian High School
This paper examines the efforts of an alternative, Christian high school to re-engage dropouts by
building caring, solidary relationships between teachers and students. Ethnographic data and in-depth interviews are employed to elucidate how these personalistic attachments influenced students’ academic performance, attitudes toward school, and motivation to continue their education. The tensions engendered by the school’s personalistic orientation are also discussed, and particular attention is given to the disparate meanings teachers and students attach to their affectively-charged relationships, the inherent conflict between teachers’ authority and friendship roles, and the recurring problem of efficacy.
Key words: at-risk youth; education; children and youth
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| | Authors: Colomy, Paul. and Granfield, Robert. |
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ABSTRACT
Saving At-Risk Youth:
Building Community and Re-engaging Dropouts
at an Alternative, Christian High School
This paper examines the efforts of an alternative, Christian high school to re-engage dropouts by
building caring, solidary relationships between teachers and students. Ethnographic data and in-depth
interviews are employed to elucidate how these personalistic attachments influenced students’ academic
performance, attitudes toward school, and motivation to continue their education. The tensions engendered by
the school’s personalistic orientation are also discussed, and particular attention is given to the disparate
meanings teachers and students attach to their affectively-charged relationships, the inherent conflict between
teachers’ authority and friendship roles, and the recurring problem of efficacy.
Key words: at-risk youth; education; children and youth
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