After the "at-risk" label : reorienting educational policy and practice / Keffrelyn D. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Keffrelyn D., author.

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

Disability, culture, and equity series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children with social disabilities--Education--United States.

Children with social disabilities.

Children with social disabilities--Education.

United States.

Education and state--United States.

Education and state.

Physical Description:

ix, 205 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2016]

Summary:

This book examines how the use of the "at-risk" category and label creates problems for students and teachers. Drawing from research across various education sites, the author illustrates how educators recognize the label's potential to redress issues of equity, but warns that it can also stigmatize the students so labeled. The text provides a historical overview, discusses the role of federal education policy and teaching, and includes tools to help readers acquire more complex, critical understandings of risk in educational practice. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Why Should We Interrogate Risk? 1

Risky Knowledge and Teaching 4

What Do We Already Know About Risk and the Category and Label of the At-Risk Student? 5

Why We Need a Book on Meanings of Risk and the At-Risk Category and Label 8

Conceptual Framing 11

Goals of the Book 14

Organization of the Book 15

2 Historicizing Risk in Education Discourse and Practice 18

Material Realities of Educational Risk and the Category and Label of the At-Risk Student 18

At-Risk Discourse: Sources of Contention and Controversy in the Risk Terminology 21

Making Risk a Possibility 23

Theorizing Risk in Social Practice 26

Discourses of Achievement and Risk in the United States: A Historical Trajectory 31

Risk Knowledge and Achievement: Necessary, Dangerous, or Both 46

3 Federal Education Policy: Examining Risk and the Category and Label of the At-Risk Student 49

What Can Federal Policy Tell Us About Risk? 50

Looking Back to the Past: Federal Education Policy in the United States 52

Talking About Risk in Federal Education Policy 54

Locating Risk in Federal Education Policy 57

Remedying Risk in Federal Education Policy 63

Bridging Remarks: U.S. Federal Education Policy, Risk, and the Label and Category of the At-Risk Student 66

4 Preservice Teachers: Examining Risk and the Category and Label of the At-Risk Student 70

Teacher Education at Midwest University 70

Who Are the Preservice Teachers? 72

Talking About Risk 88

Locating and Remedying Academic Risk in the Preservice Teacher Site 96

Bridging Remarks: Preservice Teachers, Risk, and the Category and Label of the At-Risk Student 103

5 Inservice Teachers: Examining Risk and the Category and Label of the At-Risk Student 108

Setting the Stage: Looking at the Town/City of Resputo and Green Mounds Elementary School 108

Who are the Inservice Teachers? 114

Talking About Risk in the Inservice Teacher Site 125

Locating and Remedying Academic Risk in the Inservice Teacher Site 133

Bridging Remarks: Inservice Teachers, Risk, and the Category of the At-Risk Student 140

6 After the "At-Risk" Label: Toward a Critical Standpoint of Risk and a Critical Reorientation to Risk in Education Policy and Practice 146

Risk and the At-Risk Category and Label Across a Multisited Education Context 147

From Necessary and Dangerous to a Critical Reorientation to Risk 150

An Orientation to Practice: Toward a Critical Standpoint of Risk 156

To Reimagine Risk: Envisioning a Critical Reorientation to Risk for Education Policy and Practice 159

Taking Up a Critical Risk Standpoint in Education Policy and Practice 161

So What Comes After the "At-Risk" Label? 170.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780807757017

0807757012

OCLC:

941876959

Publisher Number:

99969119509