Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities Toward Civic Responsibility

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• ISBN13: 9781442204676
• ISBN10: 1442204672
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and former President of the American Educational Research Association, presents a collection of chapters from across disciplines to further understand the strengths of and problems in our communities. Today, many research literatures ”e.g., health, housing, transportation, and education ”focus on civic progress, yet rarely are there efforts to interrelate these literatures to better understand urgent problems and promising possibilities in education, wherein social context is central. In this volume, social context ”in particular, the unequal opportunities that result from geography ”is integral to the arguments, analyses, and case studies presented. Written by more than 50 educational scholars from top universities across the nation, the research presented in this volume provides historical, moral, and scientifically based arguments with the potential to inform understandings of civic problems associated with education, youth, and families, and to guide the actions of responsible citizens and institutions dedicated to advancing the public good.

Author Biography

William F. Tate IV is the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts and Sciences and chair of the Department of Education at Washington University in St. Louis.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Conceptualizing Urban Space
Neighborhood Inequality, Violence, and the Social Infrastructure of the American City	p. 11
Toward a Theory of Place: Social Mobility, Proximity, and Proximal Capital	p. 29
Urban Opportunity Structure and Racial/Ethnic Polarization	p. 47
Racial Segregation in Multiethnic Schools: Adding Immigrants to the Analysis	p. 67
The Growing Complexity of Metropolitan America
Suburbanization and School Segregation	p. 85
Schools Matter: Segregation, Unequal Educational. Opportunities, and the Achievement Gap in the Boston Region	p. 103
Still Separate, Still Unequal, But Not Always So "Suburban": The Changing Nature of Suburban School Districts in the New York Metropolitan Area	p. 125
Adding Geospatial Perspective to Research on Schools, Communities, and Neighborhoods	p. 151
Teaching and Learning Research in Social Context
Conceptual and Methodological Challenges to a Cultural and Ecological Framework for Studying Human learning and Development	p. 173
An Ecological and Activity Theoretic Approach to Studying Diasporic and Nondominant Communities	p. 203
Reconstructing Education in America	p. 217
Can School Improvement Reduce Racial Inequality?	p. 233
Seeing Our Way Into Learning Science in Informal Environments	p. 249
No Color Necessary: High School Students' Discourse on College Support Systems and College Readiness	p. 269
Taking Math and Science to Black Parents: Promises and Challenges of a Community-Based Intervention for Educational Change	p. 279
Research on Human Development, Health, and Human Service Providers in Social Context
Maximizing Culturally and Contextually Sensitive Assessment Strategies in Developmental and Educational Research	p. 299
Immigrant Children: Hiding in Plain Sight in the Margins of the Urban Infrastructure	p. 327
Delivering High-Quality Public Services to Vulnerable Families and Children in America's Cities: The Lessons From Reforming Child Welfare	p. 347
Health Disparities Among African Americans in Urban Populations	p. 369
A "Tragic Dichotomy": A Case Study of Industrial Lead Contamination and Management in a Company Town	p. 381
Pandemic Preparedness: Using Geospatial Modeling to Inform Policy in Systems of Education and Health in Metropolitan America	p. 411
Case Studies of Metropolitan Communities
Urban America in Distress: A Case Study Analysis of Gary, Indiana: 1968-1987	p. 433
God's Will or Government Policy? Katrina's Unveiling of History and the Mass Dispersion of Black People	p. 455
Epilogue
Research Infrastructure for Improving Urban Education	p. 481
The White House Office of Urban Affairs: Regionalism, Sustainability, and the Neglect of Social Infrastructure	p. 505
Toward Civic Responsibility and Civic Engagement: Beyond the Business of Parallel Play	p. 523
Index	p. 527
About the Contributors	p. 545
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