id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt WOS-000469048700006 Yacek, DW The Problem of Student Disengagement: Struggle, Escapism and Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy 2019 .txt text/plain 231 6 26 The problem of student disengagement is not confined to under-represented socioeconomic groups; it is found across the country: in cities, suburbs, and rural communities; in wealthy schools and poor schools; in public schools and charter schools; in majority white schools and those composed largely of students of color. In particular, the conception of Dionysian pessimism Nietzsche advances in this early work and its relationship to the escapist, Alexandrianism he observes in late 19th century German education are relevant to the contemporary problem of student disengagement because they address head on the reality of struggle in students' academic experiences and can potentially explain the disengagement they experience when they fail to acknowledge, accept and even embrace the struggle of education. cache/WOS-000469048700006.txt txt/WOS-000469048700006.txt