A powerful and moving memoir about how the youth detention system is letting down our most desperate and damaged kids, and how one rookie teacher fought the system on their behalf. Explosive, heart-breaking, inspiring.
'Honest and courageous ... This book is the report card we've all known was coming.' – Gabbie Stroud, bestselling author of
Teacher
What happens when your first teaching job isn't in a classroom - but in juvenile detention?
When Ralph Jackman swapped his career as a sports reporter for life as a teacher, he expected yard duty and parent-teacher nights. Instead, he found himself behind the razor wire of Melbourne's Parkville Youth Detention Centre, teaching literacy and numeracy to some of the nation's most vulnerable and damaged boys.
This raw and powerful memoir takes you inside a world few educators ever see, both shocking and inspiring, with humour and heartbreak, and moments of connection that make teaching matter. But it's also the story of a system failing its most desperate kids - and a teacher who refused to look away.
Detention is more than one teacher's journey, it's a call to action for everyone who believes in the rights of all kids to have an education, even behind bars.
'A compelling account by a real insider of how Australia is failing some of its most vulnerable kids by locking them up. Jackman emerges not just as a teacher with real heart but as a fine storyteller. His passion and principles drive this exposé and urgent call for change.' – Nick McKenzie, Gold Walkley Award– winning investigative journalist at
The Age
'a powerful memoir ... empathetic and compassionate' –
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- 298 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Social SciencesTable of contents
- COVER PAGE
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- DEDICATION
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- CONTENTS
- PROLOGUE | THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED
- 1 | DAY ONE
- 2 | FIRST PEOPLES FIRST
- 3 | GHETTO BIRDS AND VERSE
- 4 | IN PRAISE OF YJS
- 5 | CHOP-OUTS
- 6 | DIFFERENTIATION
- 7 | POETS
- 8 | MUSIC
- 9 | HISTORY
- 10 | THE RACE
- 11 | THE JOY OF X
- 12 | GOING SOUTH
- 13 | CLASS ACTION I
- 14 | CLASS ACTION II
- 15 | SHOWDOWN
- 16 | FALLOUT
- 17 | UNDERDOG RISING
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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