Silenced voices and extraordinary conversations : re-imagining schools / Michelle Fine and Lois Weis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fine, Michelle

Contributor:

Weis, Lois.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational sociology--United States.

Educational sociology.

United States.

Critical pedagogy--United States.

Critical pedagogy.

School improvement programs--United States.

School improvement programs.

Physical Description:

vii, 208 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press, [2003]

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 -- as urgently needed now as when they first appeared -- 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 -- 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."

Contents:

Introduction: Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations / Michelle Fine, Lois Weis 1

Part I Scenes of Silencing 9

1. Silencing and Nurturing Voice in an Improbable Context: Urban Adolescents in Public School / Michelle Fine 13

2. Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire / Michelle Fine 38

3. Constructing the "Other": Discursive Renditions of White Working-Class Males in High School / Lois Weis 68

4. Acquiring White Working-Class Identities: Legitimate and Silenced Discourse within the School / Lois Weis 88

Part II Scenes of Extraordinary Conversations 109

5. Before the Bleach Gets Us All / Michelle Fine, Bernadette Anand, Carlton Jordan, Dana Sherman 113

6. Learning to Speak Out in an Abstinence-Based Sex Education Group: Gender and Race Work in an Urban Magnet School / Lois Weis, Doris Carbonell-Medina, Esq. 133

7. Revisiting the Struggle for Integration / Michelle Fine, Bernadette Anand 166

Epilogue: A Memo to Educators / Lois Weis, Michelle Fine 177.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.

ISBN:

0807742848

0807742856

OCLC:

50333749