Urban Education A Comprehensive Guide for Educators, Parents, and Teachers

by Kincheloe, Joe L.; Hayes, Kecia; Rose, Karel; Anderson, Philip M.

• ISBN13: 9781578866168
• ISBN10: 1578866162
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-24
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

Maintaining that urban teaching and learning is characterized by numerous contradictions, this book proposes that there is a wide range of social, cultural, psychological, and pedagogical knowledge that urban educators must possess in order to engage in effective and transformative practice. It is necessary for teachers in urban schools to be scholar-practitioners, as opposed to bureaucrats who only follow rather than analyze, understand, and create. Ten major sections cover the myriad issues of urban education as it exists today: context of urban education, race and ethnicity, social justice, teaching and pedagogy, power and urban education, language issues, cultural issues of urban schools as seen in the media, research in city schools, aesthetics and the proximity of cultural institutions, and education policy.Sixty one essays written by specialists in teacher education; public policy; sociology; psychology; applied linguistics; forestry; urban studies; school administration; cultural studies; evaluation; and linguistics, provide a blueprint for scholars, teachers, parents, urban politicians, school administrators, policy professionals, and others seeking to understand the situation of urban schools across America today.

Table of Contents

Introduction : the power of hope in the trenches
No Child Left Behind and urban education : the purpose and funding of public education	p. 1
The militarized zone	p. 10
Big cities, small schools : redefining educational spaces in the urban context	p. 19
The significance of urban street vendors	p. 27
Why should urban educators care about community organizing to reform schools?	p. 35
A sociological critique of meaningful differences : a functional approach to the parenting style of low-income African-American families	p. 47
Black women activists, leaders, and educators : transforming urban educational practice	p. 59
Dilemmas confronting urban principals in the post-civil rights era	p. 70
Bring in da noise, bring in Du Bois : infusing an African-American educational ideology into the urban education discourse	p. 77
Race, class, and gender in urban education : exploring the critical research on urban pedagogy and school reform	p. 89
Whiteness in teacher education	p. 101
Should the Holocaust be taught in urban schools?	p. 112
Rethinking the white man's burden : identity and pedagogy for an inner-city student teacher	p. 121
African-American teachers : the dying group	p. 131
Participatory democratic education : is the utopia possible? : Porto Alegre's citizen school project	p. 135
Identity as dialectic : re/making self in urban schooling	p. 143
The professional development of teachers of science in urban schools : issues and challenges	p. 153
Contemplative urban education	p. 161
Conflict resolution strategies for inner-city youth	p. 170
One day at a time : substitute teaching in urban schools	p. 179
Developing scholar-practitioner leaders in the urban education in crisis	p. 188
Voice, access, and democratic participation : toward a transformational paradigm of parent involvement in urban education	p. 196
Rewriting the curriculum for urban teacher preparation	p. 208
Rethinking learning and motivation in urban schools	p. 217
The testing movement and urban education	p. 227
Forming a circle : creating a learning community for urban commuting adult students in an interdisciplinary studies program	p. 241
Tolerance with children : a critique of zero tolerance in school discipline	p. 250
Literacy in urban education : problems and promises	p. 263
Complicating our identities as urban teachers : a co/autoethnography	p. 273
Democratic urban education : imagining possibilities	p. 282
Critical theory, voice, and urban education	p. 289
The need for free play in natural settings	p. 303
Any given Saturday	p. 312
Purple leaves and Charley horses : the dichotomous definition of urban education	p. 324
Exploring urban landscapes : a postmodern approach to learning	p. 330
Global capitalism and urban education	p. 339
Toward an anticolonial education	p. 350
Education in a globalized society : over five centuries, the colonial struggle continues	p. 357
Universities, regional policy, and the knowledge economy	p. 367
The individual versus the collective in a time of globalization : educational implications	p. 377
School finance in urban America	p. 387
Evaluating programs for English language learners : possibilities for biliteracy in urban school districts in California	p. 397
Bilingual-bicultural literacy pedagogies and the politics of Project Head Start	p. 409
Hollywood's depiction of urban schools : documentary or fiction?	p. 421
The revolutionary praxis of PunKore Street pedagogy	p. 429
Civil right, noble cause, and Trojan horse : news portrayals of vouchers and urban education	p. 439
Utilizing Carino in the development of research methodologies	p. 451
Tangling the knot while loosening the strings : examining the limits and possibilities of urban education for African-American males	p. 460
Multisited ethnographic approaches in urban education today	p. 470
Objectivity in educational research : the quest for certainty between the 1950s and 1970s	p. 481
In the middle : an artist/researcher experiences urban reform	p. 487
Aesthetics and urban education : urban learners' affirmation and transformation through arts and human development education	p. 496
Aesthetic consciousness and dance curriculum : liberation possibilities for inner-city schools	p. 508
Creating connections, shaping community: artists/teachers in urban contexts (urban gypsies)	p. 518
Urban art museums and the education of teachers and students	p. 525
The arts in urban education	p. 535
Cities : contested aesthetic spaces	p. 545
System-to-system partnership as a reform strategy for urban schools	p. 555
Diversity and security challenges for urban school planning and change	p. 565
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