“…The interesting elements for me, as a practitioner in the British Youth Justice System, were the notions and references to individualized and collective learning, and the book encouraged me to make connections (even though the tone is at times is distinctly American) to my own practice and contemporary debates. There are reverberations with British work – for example, Hatcher (2013)’s talk, Activism in the school system in England , and Rodgers and Gunter (2012)’s article, ‘Crouching target and hidden child’, along with numerous other research examples regarding pupils ‘resisting’ full time education and the current headlines about the underachievement of white working class children (most notably boys) in relation to the individualized vs collective learning argument.…”