Street Teaching in the Tenderloin (eBook)

Jumpin’ Down the Rabbit Hole

Don Stannard-Friel (Autor)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2017
XXIII, 403 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-56437-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is an ethnographic account of San Francisco's most inner city neighborhood, the Tenderloin. Using its streets as campus and its people as teachers, Stannard-Friel uses storytelling as a way of explaining why inner city social problems, such as homelessness, drugs, prostitution, untreated mental illness, and death of young people by murders and suicides, exist and persist there. The work delves into who lives in the Tenderloin and why, the role of dedicated service providers in meeting people's needs and encouraging social change, and what lessons university students, many coming from their own challenging backgrounds, learn through community engagement and service learning that encourage understanding, compassion, and meaningful contributions to society. The work also explores how life in the area is changing, and why so many youth report that they 'love living in the Tenderloin.' 

Don Stannard-Friel is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Notre Dame de Namur University, USA. He has also taught at San Francisco State, University of San Francisco, University of California, Santa Cruz, county jail, and a Federal prison for women. He has served as a Campus Compact - Carnegie Foundation Fellow for Political Engagement; California Site Director, Notre Dame-AmeriCorps; and Director of NDNU's Dorothy Stang Center for Social Justice and Community Engagement.

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This book is an ethnographic account of San Francisco's most inner city neighborhood, the Tenderloin. Using its streets as campus and its people as teachers, Stannard-Friel uses storytelling as a way of explaining why inner city social problems, such as homelessness, drugs, prostitution, untreated mental illness, and death of young people by murders and suicides, exist and persist there. The work delves into who lives in the Tenderloin and why, the role of dedicated service providers in meeting people's needs and encouraging social change, and what lessons university students, many coming from their own challenging backgrounds, learn through community engagement and service learning that encourage understanding, compassion, and meaningful contributions to society. The work also explores how life in the area is changing, and why so many youth report that they "e;love living in the Tenderloin."e;

Inhalt

Preface: What Waits Below1. Wild Awakenings2. Jumpin’ Down the Rabbit Hole3. Höküao’s Tears    4. It Was a Terrible Time                                                                 5. Stories of Survival6. R I P Josh Mann7. One Sadness After Another and Another           8. The Drug Store9. Tender Loin10. The Mental Hospital Without Walls11. I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas (City) Anymore12. Don’t Count Me!13. The Secret Garden14. Trendy Loin15. The Soul of the City16. Compassion as Pedagogy

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.11.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XXIII, 403 p. 33 illus., 7 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Cambodian refugees • Community-based learning • community engagement • community service • concentration camps • containment zone • deviant behavior • Homelessness • Inner city studies • inner city youth • Mental Illness • Prostitution • real life learning • Refugees • Service Learning • street memorials • Suicide • Trafficking • Vietnam War
• ISBN-10: 1-137-56437-7 / 1137564377
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-56437-5 / 9781137564375