Intervening in alienation: The outcomes for urban youth of participating in school activism

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-86

  Taines, Cynthia ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alienation; educational inequality; students' responses to schooling; urban schools; urban youth; youth activism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856568178     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0002831211411079     Document Type: Article

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