"Designed to challenge and reframe the basic assumptions about youth development and public education, the collection will support current and prospective teachers and school administrators in their efforts to imagine and create libratory possibilities for youth."--Adolescence, Vol 41 No 161, Spring 2006
Enora R. Brown is Brown is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Research at DePaul University in Chicago Her current work in human development and education examines the theories and assumptions that undergird traditional psychology and constructions of youth identities. Kenneth J. Saltman is Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Policy at DePaul University in Chicago and the author most recently of The Edison Schools: Corporate Schooling andthe Assault on Public Schools (Routledge 2005) and co-editor of Education as Enforcement: The Militarizationand Corporatization of Schools (Routledge 2003).