Synopses & Reviews
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.]
Synopsis
Presents current research and theoretical perspectives on the challenges facing educators in U.S. urban schools.
Synopsis
At the University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Karen A. McClafferty is a Doctoral Candidate, Carlos Alberto Torres is Director of the Latin American Center and Professor of Education, and Theodore R. Mitchell is Professor of Education and Vice President for Education and Strategic Initiatives, J. Paul Getty Trust. Carlos Alberto Torres is the author and editor of several books, including, with Theodore R. Mitchell, Sociology of Education: Emerging Perspectives, also published by SUNY Press.
Table of Contents
Power, meaning, and identity: critical sociology of education in the United States / Michael W. Apple -- Social theory and educational research: reframing the quantitative-qualitative distinction through a critical theory of methodology / Raymond A. Morrow -- Sociology of education and urban education policy / Geoff Whitty -- Where neoliberal ideology meets social context: a comparative analysis of U.S charter schools and England's grant-maintained schools / Amy Stuart Wells -- Corporations and classrooms: a critical examination of the business agenda for urban school reform / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson -- A comparative analysis of existing secondary school discipline policies: implications for improving practice and school safety / Pamela Fenning ... et al. -- Modeling the affects of changing demography on student learning: applications designed to change school district practices / Anthony Gary Dworkin ... et al. -- Gangsta pedagogy and ghettocentricity: the hip-hop nation as counterpublic sphere / Peter McLaren -- Battlin' nihilism at urban high school: pedagogy, perseverance, and hope / David Keiser -- Gaps, bridges, and buffers in the research, policy, and practice of urban education: a dialogue / Theodore R. Mitchell ... et al. -- Memoirs of urban education policymakers: a dialogue among three former urban school superintendents ... et al..