Canaries Reflect on the Mine: Dropouts' Stories of Schooling

In Canaries Reflect on the Mine: Dropouts' Stories of Schooling, Jeanne Cameron invites the reader to see schooling and early school leaving through the eyes of high school dropouts themselves. The transcendent desires revealed by this research — to be known and valued, to learn with purpose and autonomy — are spoken with poignant clarity by the young people who story these pages.

This study offers a compelling and timely critique of the dominant, neoliberal discourse on schooling and early...