Urban Educational Identity

Seeing Students on Their Own Terms
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-84291-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 373 g

Reihe: The Critical Educator

WINNER 2017 O.L. Davis, Jr. AATC Outstanding Book in Education Award

WINNER 2017 American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Award

Through rich ethnographic detail, Urban Educational Identity captures the complexities of urban education by documenting the everyday practices of teaching and learning at a high-achieving, high-poverty school. Drawing on over two years of intensive fieldwork and analysis, author Sara M. Childers shows how students, teachers, and parents work both within and against traditional deficit discourses to demonstrate the challenges and paradoxes of urban schooling. It offers an up-close description of how macro-government policies are interpreted, applied, and even subverted for better or worse by students as active agents in their own education. The book moves on to develop and analyze the concept of "urban cachet," tracing how conceptions of race and class were deeply entwined with the very practices for success that propelled students towards graduation and college entrance. A poignant, insightful, and practical analysis, Urban Educational Identity is a timely exploration of how race and class continue to matter in schools.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Childers, Sara M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Series Editor Introduction

Chapter 1: Rethinking Urban Education

Vignette: Can I get into Trouble? Negotiating the Terms of Research

Chapter 2: Ohio Magnet School Before and After Brown

Vignette: "See What We Don’t Have:" The Myth of the Boutique School

Chapter 3: "State Standards are the Minimum of What We Do"

Vignette: Winter Formal Assembly

Chapter 4: Excellent Intentions: Racialized Enrollment Practices of a Successful? Urban School

Vignette: International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge Course at OMS

Chapter 5: Urban Cachet

Vignette: Mr. Hart’s English and History "Split" Class

Chapter 6: Those Students

Vignette: "He Just Gave Us All the Answers:" Boys Participation in 10th Grade Humanities

Chapter 7: On Their Own Terms

Appendix I: Getting in Trouble

Appendix II: Recommendations

Über Autor(innen)

Sara M. Childers is an independent scholar and assistant director of The Women's Place, the women's policy office at The Ohio State University. She resides in Dublin, Ohio, USA.