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9780791444344

Challenges of Urban Education: Sociological Perspectives for the Next Century

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791444344

  • ISBN10:

    0791444341

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-02-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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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.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures vii
Acknowledgments ix
PART I Critical Issues in Urban Education and Challenges for the Sociology of Education
Introduction: Challenges of the New Sociology of Urban Education
3(16)
Karen A. McClafferty
Carlos A. Torres
Theodore R. Mitchell
Power, Meaning, and Identity: Critical Sociology of Education in the United States
19(28)
Michael W. Apple
Social Theory and Educational Research: Reframing the Quantitative-Qualitative Distinction through a Critical Theory of Methodology
47(32)
Raymond A. Morrow
Sociology of Education and Urban Education Policy
79(20)
Geoff Whitty
PART II Empirical Perspectives on Urban Education
Where Neoliberal Ideology Meets Social Context: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Charter Schools and England's Grant-Maintained Schools
99(28)
Amy Stuart Wells
Corporations and Classrooms: A Critical Examination of the Business Agenda for Urban School Reform
127(48)
Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
A Comparative Analysis of Existing Secondary School Discipline Policies: Implications for Improving Practice and School Safety
175(20)
Pamela Fenning
James D. Wilczynski
Marianela Parraga
Modeling the Effects of Changing Demography on Student Learning: Applications Designed to Change School District Practices
195(32)
Anthony Gary Dworkin
Laurence A. Toenjes
Margaret K. Purser
Ayman Sheikh-Hussin
Gangsta Pedagogy and Ghettocentricity: The Hip-Hop Nation as Counterpublic Sphere
227(44)
Peter McLaren
Battlin' Nihilism at an Urban High School: Pedagogy, Perseverance, and Hope
271(28)
David Keiser
PART III In Conclusion: Reflections on the Dilemmas of Urban Education Reform
Gaps, Bridges, and Buffers in the Research, Policy, and Practice of Urban Education: A Dialogue
299(14)
Theodore R. Mitchell
Carlos A. Torres
Karen A. McClafferty
Memoirs of Urban Education Policymakers: A Dialogue among Three Former Urban School Superintendents
313(22)
Harry Handler
Sid Thompson
Eugene Tucker
Carlos A. Torres
Karen A. McClafferty
The Contributors 335(6)
Index 341

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