Urban educational identity : seeing students on their own terms / Sara M. Childers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Childers, Sara M., author.

Series:

Critical educator

The critical educator

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Urban--United States.

Education, Urban.

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 132 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

Through rich ethnographic detail, Urban Educational Identity captures the complexities of urban education by documenting the everyday practices of teaching and learning at a high-achieving, high-poverty school. Drawing on over two years of intensive fieldwork and analysis, author Sara M. Childers shows how students, teachers, and parents work both within and against traditional deficit discourses to demonstrate the challenges and paradoxes of urban schooling. It offers an up-close description of how macro-government policies are interpreted, applied, and even subverted for better or worse by students as active agents in their own education. The book moves on to develop and analyze the concept of "urban cachet," tracing how conceptions of race and class were deeply entwined with the very practices for success that propelled students towards graduation and college entrance. A poignant, insightful, and practical analysis, Urban Educational Identity is a timely exploration of how race and class continue to matter in schools. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Rethinking Urban Education 1

Vignette: Will I Get into Trouble? Negotiating the Terms of Research 20

2 Ohio Magnet School before and after Brown 21

Vignette: "See What We Don't Have": The Myth of the Boutique School 36

3 "State Standards Are the Minimum of What We Do" 39

Vignette: The Winter Dance 56

4 Excellent Intentions: Racialized Enrollment Practices of a Successful(?) Urban School 59

Vignette: Making Trouble at OMS 73

5 Urban Cachet 75

Vignette: Mr. Hart's English and History "Split" Class 81

6 Those Students 83

Vignette: "He Just Gave Us All the Answers": Boys' Participation in 10th Grade Humanities 91

7 On Their Own Terms 93.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138842915

1138842915

9781138842922

1138842923

OCLC:

961249383