Nineteen Urban Questions: Teaching in the City

by Steinberg, Shirley R.; Kincheloe, Joe L.; Shanley, Deborah A.

• ISBN13: 9780820457727
• ISBN10: 0820457728
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Table of Contents

FOREWORD
Deborah A. Shanley	xi
CHAPTER ONE Why a Book on Urban Education?	1	(28)
Joe L. Kincheloe
CHAPTER TWO Why Is Urban Education Different from Suburban and Rural Education?	29	(12)
Philip M. Anderson and Judith P. Summerfield
CHAPTER THREE Who Are Our Urban Students and What Makes Them So "Different?"	41	(12)
Rebecca A. Goldstein
CHAPTER FOUR Urban Dropouts: Why So Many and What Can Be Done?	53	(16)
Florence Rubinson
CHAPTER FIVE What Is the Role of Counseling in Urban Schools?	69	(16)
David Forbes
CHAPTER SIX How Do We Locate Resistance in Urban Schools?	85	(14)
Luis F. Miron
CHAPTER SEVEN What Does It Mean to Be in a Gang?	99	(10)
Haroon Kharem
CHAPTER EIGHT What Is the Nature of Evaluation and Assessment in an Urban Context?	109	(10)
Eleanor Annour-Thomas
CHAPTER NINE What Is Urban Education in an Age of Standardization and Scripted Learning?	119	(8)
Judith Hill
CHAPTER TEN How Can We Transgress in the Field of Disabilities in Urban Education?	127	(16)
Joe Valentine
CHAPTER ELEVEN Does Bilingual Education Matter?	143	(14)
Alma Rubal-Lopez
CHAPTER TWELVE Can Literacy be Taught Successfully in Urban Schools?	157	(16)
Elizabeth Quintero
CHAPTER THIRTEEN How Can Urban Students Become Writers?	173	(36)
Winthrop Holder
CHAPTER FOURTEEN How Important is Technology in Urban Education?	209	(10)
Vanessa Domine
CHAPTER FIFTEEN How Should Science Be Taught in Urban Settings?	219	(10)
Koshi Dhingra
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Can Aesthetics Be Taught in Urban Education?	229	(16)
Roymieco A. Carter
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Why Is Health an Urban Issue? Asthma: A Case in Point	245	(10)
Leah Henry-Beauchamp and Tina Siedler
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Who Is Included in the Urban Family?	255	(12)
Katia Goldfarb
CHAPTER NINETEEN Why Teach in Urban Settings?	267	(14)
Derrick Griffith, Kecia Hayes, and John Pascarella
AFTERWORD What Didn't We Ask? Keepin' It Real	281	(6)
Shirley R Steinberg
CONTRIBUTORS	287	(6)
INDEX	293