Living Away from Blessings
Student Failure as Lived Experience
Description:... The notion of school failure is often understood only in terms of students' cognitive inadequacies or their dropping out of school. In this sense, students' failure really is seen as their failure. Living Away from Blessings offers an alternative understanding of the notion by examining students' lived experiences of school failure in the classroom. The experiential accounts of teenage students show that they view school failure as having little to do with cognitive inadequacy and everything to do with their behaviour. The lived experiences described by the students include feelings of disappointment, non-recognition, loneliness, boredom, shame, marginalization, stigmatization, inferiority, and worthlesssness. Drawing on phenomenological philosophy, Carina Henriksson explores the temporal, spatial, and relational dimensions of the experience of school failure. Living Away from Blessings is an insightful and sensitive inquiry into taken-for-granted attitudes about pedagogical relationships and classroom interaction. -- Cover.
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