Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations

by Fine, Michelle; Weis, Lois

• ISBN13: 9780807742846
• ISBN10: 0807742848
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

Two noted educators invite new and veteran teachers on an intellectual guided tour through the troubles of bad practice and the delights of good. This volume is a collection of classic essays#x14;as urgently needed now as when they first appeared#x14;on social class, race, gender, and schooling crafted over the course of two decades. The authors invite all of us to take a serious look at the paradox of public education#x14;the ways in which urban schools reproduce social inequalities while, at the same time, serve as sites for learning at its most transformative and compelling. A must-read for all those educators who believe that we can no longer afford to cede this space to policymakers who know little of the life of a classroom, the curiosity of a child, and the moral imperatives of teaching for critical citizenship.

Author Biography

Michelle Fine is a Distinguished Professor of Education at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Lois Weis is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations	1	(8)
Michelle Fine
Lois Weis
PART I: SCENES OF SILENCING	9	(100)
Silencing and Nurturing Voice in an Improbable Context: Urban Adolescents in Public School	13	(25)
Michelle Fine
Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire	38	(30)
Michelle Fine
Constructing the ``Other'': Discursive Renditions of White Working-Class Males in High School	68	(20)
Lois Weis
Acquiring White Working-Class Identities: Legitimate and Silenced Discourse within the School	88	(21)
Lois Weis
PART II: SCENES OF EXTRAORDINARY CONVERSATIONS	109	(68)
Before the Bleach Gets Us All	113	(20)
Michelle Fine
Bernadette Anand
Carlton Jordan
Dana Sherman
Learning to Speak Out in an Abstinence-Based Sex Education Group: Gender and Race Work in an Urban Magnet School	133	(33)
Lois Weis
Doris Carbonell-Medina
Revisiting the Struggle for Integration	166	(11)
Michelle Fine
Bernadette Anand
Epilogue: A Memo to Educators	177	(2)
Lois Weis
Michelle Fine
Notes	179	(4)
References	183	(14)
Index	197	(10)
About the Contributors	207