School Trouble: Identity, Power and Politics in Education

What is the trouble with schools and why should we want to make ‘school trouble’?

Schooling is implicated in the making of educational and social exclusions and inequalities as well as the making of particular sorts of students and teachers. For this reason schools are important sites of counter- or radical- politics. In this book, Deborah Youdell brings together theories of counter-politics and radical traditions in education to make sense of the politics of daily life inside schools and ex...