Canaries in the Mine Seeing School Through the Eyes of the Misbehaved

I use observations of children at school and at home, formal, semi-structured interviews with key adults in the child's life, and visual methods—drawings and photography produced by the children—to weave portraits of each child. Both individually and collectively, these children offer up rich lessons about how to make human being visible in schools. Ultimately, I argue that they urge us toward three critical shifts in paradigm: from "fixing" children to understanding them; from discarding children to loving them; and from powering over children to sharing power with them.