Urban schools : the new social spaces of resistance / Mickey Lauria and Luis F. Mirón. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lauria, Mickey.

Contributor:

Mirón, Luis F.

Series:

Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 86.

Counterpoints, 1058-1634 ; v. 86

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Urban--Political aspects--Louisiana--New Orleans--Case studies.

Education, Urban.

Minorities--Education--Political aspects--Louisiana--New Orleans--Case studies.

Minorities.

Postmodernism and education.

Critical pedagogy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 195 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Urban Schools documents the quality of resistance and identity politics in relation to both the formal and hidden curricula of urban schools, their pedagogical practices, and their administrative norms and policies. Builidng on the notion that the study of "marginality" is equally as important as an understanding of the school's structural connections to the wider society, Mickey Lauria and Luis F. Miron demonstrate how resistance is much more than a random series of psychological events. Indeed, within the social context of the formation of racial and ethnic identity in schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, students' acts of resistance alter the ideological structures of schooling."--Jacket.

Contents:

Sites of identity construction and resistance

The evolving state social regulation of public schooling in New Orleans

School, work, and alienation

Student-teacher relations

Student relations, resistance, and accommodation

Identity construction, student culture, and resistance

Schools as new social spaces of resistance and accommodation

Resistance in the context of globalization and transnationalism: policy implications.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-189) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph