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Stubborn roots : race, culture, and inequality in U.S. and South African schools / Prudence L. Carter.
LIBRA LC213.2 .C37 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Prudence L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational equalization--United States--Case studies.
- Educational equalization.
- Multiculturalism.
- Discrimination in education.
- United States.
- South Africa.
- Educational equalization--South Africa--Case studies.
- Discrimination in education--United States--Case studies.
- Discrimination in education--South Africa--Case studies.
- Multiculturalism--United States--Case studies.
- Multiculturalism--South Africa--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- What are the Features of the School Environment That Make the Incorporation of Students of Color Greater at Some Schools Than at Others? Prudence L. Carter seeks to answer this basic but bedeviling question through a rich comparative analysis of the organizational and group dynamics in eight schools located within four cities in the United States and South Africa-two nations rebounding from centuries of overt practices of racial and social inequality. Stubborn Roots provides insight into how school communities can better incorporate previously disadvantaged groups and engender equity by addressing socio-cultural contexts and promoting "cultural flexibility." It also raises important and timely questions about the social, political, and philosophical purposes of multiracial schooling that have been greatly ignored by many, and cautions against narrow approaches to education that merely focus on test-scores and resources. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Distinctions and convergences: a brief history of race and education in the United States and South Africa
- Selecting "good" schools in the U.S. and South Africa
- Paradoxes of opportunity: resources, boundaries, and organizational-racial habitus
- Student cultural flexibility: the (un) making of multicultural navigators
- The more things change, the more threatening they feel: white youths' attitudes on equity
- Equity and empathy: growing equality of opportunity
- Stubborn roots: weeding out educational inequality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199899630
- 9780199899630
- 0199899657
- 9780199899654
- OCLC:
- 758646792
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