He challenges the dominant neoliberal model of school reform based on business values and the managerial school as alien to educational values. Hanging in with kids in tough times: Engagement in contexts of educational disadvantage in the relational school. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing. He held a number of teaching and administrative roles as Head of School and Associate Dean before taking up the position of inaugural City of Rockingham Chair in Education at J. & McInerney, P.) Hanging in With Kids in Tough Times: Engagement in Contexts of Educational Disadvantage in the Relational School (New York: Peter Lang Kids in Tough Times: Engagement in Contexts of Educational Disadvantage in the Relational School (with Smyth & Down, 2010) and Becoming Educated: Young people s Narratives of Disadvantage, Class, Place and Identity (with Smyth, 2014). John Smyth is Research Professor, Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation `Hanging in with Kids' in Tough Times: Engagement in Contexts of Educational Disadvantage in the Relational School Adolescent Cultures, School & Society: Peter McInerney, John Smyth, Barry Down: Libros en idiomas extranjeros Hanging in with Kids' in Tough Times: Engagement in Contexts of Educational Disadvantage in the Relational School (Paperback) von John Smyth, Barry Down, Peter McInerney und eine gro