Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-154) and indexes.

Preliminary Material / John Smyth , Lawrence Angus , Barry Down and Peter Mclnerney -- What this book is about / John Smyth , Lawrence Angus , Barry Down and Peter Mclnerney -- Putting teachers and communities into policy reclamation: countering educational ‘discourses of deceit’ / John Smyth , Lawrence Angus , Barry Down and Peter Mclnerney -- Relational solidarity: harbinger of a paradigmatic shift in school and community renewal / John Smyth , Lawrence Angus , Barry Down and Peter Mclnerney -- Taking a stand against school effectiveness: pursing a pedagogy of hope / John Smyth , Lawrence Angus , Barry Down and Peter Mclnerney -- Engaging meaningful work / John Smyth , Lawrence Angus , Barry Down and Peter Mclnerney -- New Storylines on school/community renewal / John Smyth , Lawrence Angus , Barry Down and Peter Mclnerney -- References / John Smyth , Lawrence Angus , Barry Down and Peter Mclnerney -- Author Index / John Smyth , Lawrence Angus , Barry Down and Peter Mclnerney -- Subject Index / John Smyth , Lawrence Angus , Barry Down and Peter Mclnerney.

Activist and Socially Critical School and Community Renewal comes about at an incredibly important point in history, and it offers a genuinely new paradigm. This book attempts what few others have tried—to bring together knowledge and literature around school reform and community renewal through authentic ethnographic stories of real schools and communities. The book describes and analyzes a courageous struggle for a more socially just world, around notions of relational solidarity that speak back to ideas that continue to privilege the already advantaged. This book provides some desperately needed new storylines as a basis for school and community renewal for the most excluded groups in society. It provides a new social imagination for ‘doing school’ in contexts that stand to benefit from school and community voiced approaches.