Synopses & Reviews
Two of the studies are reprinted from journals, and the other nine are selected from a conference in June 1996 in Los Angeles. They look at critical issues such as power and meaning and the distinction between quantitative and qualitative, provide empirical perspectives such as neoliberal ideology and modeling the effects of changing demography on student learning, and reflect on gaps in research and the policy- making experience of superintendents.
Synopsis
A supplemental text with a fresh, bold edge, Challenges of Urban Education includes a range of topics from quantitative analyses of student demographics to the description and analysis of urban high school students creative writing. The book bridges the dualisms of local and global, theory and practice, and structure and agency. It furthers the advancement of the new sociology of education by making connections between the social context of urban schooling and the lives of the individuals who are affected by it.
Contributors include Michael W. Apple; Anthony Gary Dworkin; Pamela Fenning; harry Handler; David Keiser; Karen A. McClafferty; Peter McLaren; Roslyn Arlin Mickelson; Theodore R. Mitchell; Raymond A. Morrow; Marianela Parraga; Margaret K. Purser; Ayman Sheikh-Hussin; Sid Thompson; Laurence A. Toenjes; Carlos Alberto Torres; Eugene Tucker; Amy Stuart Wells; Geoff Whitty; and Jim Wilczynski.]"