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Explores how young people learn to understand and influence the workings of power and justice in their society. Since 2008, hundreds of secondary schools across Kenya have been targeted with fire by their students. Through an in-depth study of Kenyan secondary students’ use of arson, Elizabeth Cooper asks why.

Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Rising Disappointment
  • 1 Kindling Contradictions
  • 2 Striking Students
  • 3 Troubling Unrest
  • 4 Burning Schools
  • 5 Striving for Success
  • 6 Learning Experiences
  • 7 Fighting Fire with Fire
  • 8 Arising from the Ashes
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

    Burning Ambition Education Arson and Learning

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        Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
        Publication Date: 31/07/2022
        ISBN13: 9780299337902, 978-0299337902
        ISBN10: 0299337901
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        African history Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Explores how young people learn to understand and influence the workings of power and justice in their society. Since 2008, hundreds of secondary schools across Kenya have been targeted with fire by their students. Through an in-depth study of Kenyan secondary students’ use of arson, Elizabeth Cooper asks why.

        Table of Contents
        • List of Illustrations
        • Acknowledgments
        • Introduction: Rising Disappointment
        • 1 Kindling Contradictions
        • 2 Striking Students
        • 3 Troubling Unrest
        • 4 Burning Schools
        • 5 Striving for Success
        • 6 Learning Experiences
        • 7 Fighting Fire with Fire
        • 8 Arising from the Ashes
        • Notes
        • Works Cited
        • Index

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