Practicing Democracy in the Margins of School: The Teenage Parents Program as Feminist Counterpublic.

Kelly, Deirdre M.

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ERIC Number: EJ677674

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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Practicing Democracy in the Margins of School: The Teenage Parents Program as Feminist Counterpublic.

Kelly, Deirdre M.

American Educational Research Journal, v40 n1 p123-46 Spr 2003

Used ethnographic data to study the Teenage Parents Program as a feminist "counterpublic" (discursive community of subordinated social group members) within a Canadian public high school. Findings for the 31 program participants show the importance of the program for development as adult citizens and self-esteem. (SLD)

Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Democracy, Ethnography, Feminism, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools, Program Effectiveness

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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