Overview
- Presents an ethnographic account of inner city life in San Francisco's Tenderloin District
- Explores the context of community-based learning within the educational community
- Engages readers in discussions about the direct learning movement
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Inner city studies
- community engagement
- service learning
- community-based learning
- real life learning
- community service
- deviant behavior
- containment zone
- homelessness
- mental illness
- prostitution
- trafficking
- refugees
- Vietnam War
- Cambodian refugees
- suicide
- concentration camps
- street memorials
- inner city youth
About this book
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.”
Reviews
“Through his teachings, his writings, his advising, and through the example of his own life, Stannard-Friel fiercely strives to uplift and illuminate the oppressed, the poor, the overlooked and the imprisoned. There are few higher callings.” (Kevin Fagan, Staff Writer, San Francisco Chronicle, and recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism)
“In this book, accompany students and street teachers to learn from San Francisco’s Tenderloin. Face despair, hope, separation, awe, tragedy, and enduring questions about each of our roles in encountering our fears and becoming the people we were meant to be in community with others. Jump down this rabbit hole--and then be inspired to jump down your own.” (Laura Nichols, Associate Professor of Sociology, Santa Clara University, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Street Teaching in the Tenderloin
Book Subtitle: Jumpin’ Down the Rabbit Hole
Authors: Don Stannard-Friel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56437-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56436-8Published: 07 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-92957-3Published: 24 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56437-5Published: 04 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 403
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality